Immersive Sound

Acknowledgements Foreward Wieslaw Woszczyk Introduction Agnieszka Roginska and Paul Geluso Chapter 1: Perception of Spatial Sound * Auditory Physiology * Primary Localization Cues * Factors Affecting Localization Performance * Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) and Virtual Acoustics * Neural Plasticity in Sound Localization * Fundamental Cues to Sound Source Distance * Reverberation Cues * Inside the Head Localization * Environmental Context Cues * Late Reverberation Elizabeth Wenzel, Durand Begault, and Martine Godfroy Chapter 2: History of 3D Sound * Prehistory * Ancient History * Space and Polyphony * Spatial Separation in the Renaissance * Spatial Innovations in Acoustic Music *3D Sound Technology Braxton Boren Chapter 3: Stereo * Stereo Systems * Creating a Stereo Image * Stereo Panning * Stereo Enhancement * Stereo Immersion Summary Paul Geluso Chapter 4: Binaural Audio Over Headphones * Headphone reproduction * Binaural sound capture * HRTF measurement * Binaural synthesis * Inside the head locatedness * Advanced HRTF techniques * Quality assessment * Binaural reproduction methods * Headphone equalization and calibration Agnieszka Roginska Chapter 5: Binaural Audio through Loudspeakers * The Fundamental XTC Problem * Constant-Paramter Regularization * Frequency-Dependent Regularization * Crosstalk Cancellation Hierarchy (BACCH) Filter * The Analytical BACCH Filter * Individualized BACCH Filters * Appendix A Derivation of the Optimal XTC Filter * Appendix B Numerical Verification Edgard Choueiri Chapter 6: Surround Sound * The evolution of surround sound * Surround sound formats * Surround sound delivery and coding * Surround sound monitoring * Surround sound recording techniques * Mixing aesthetics * Up- and down-mixing * Perceptual evaluation * Predictive models of surround sound quality Francis Rumsey Chapter 7: Height Channels * Background * Fundamental psychoacoustics of height-channel perception * Multichannel reproduction systems with height channels * Recording with height channels * Concluding remarks on multichannel microphone arrays with height Sungyoung Kim Chapter 8: Object-Based Audio * Spatial representation and rendering of audio objects * Advanced metadata and applications of object-based representations * Managing complexity of object-based content * Audio object coding * Capturing audio objects * Tradeoffs of object-based representations * Object-based Loudness Estimation and Control * Object-based Program Interchange and Deliver Nicolas Tsingos Chapter 9: Sound Field * Development of the sound field * Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) * Ambisonics and HOA reproduction * Sound field synthesis * Sound field formats * Appendix A - Mathematics and physics of sound field * Appendix B - Mathematical derivation of W, X, Y, Z * Appendix C - The optimal number of loudspeakers Rozenn Nicol Chapter 10: Wave Field Synthesis * Motivation & History * Separation of Sound-Objects and Room * WFS Reproduction: Challenges and Solutions * WFS with Elevation * Audio Metadata and WFS * Applications based on WFS and hybrid Schemes * WFS and Object-based Sound Production Thomas Sporer, Karlheinz Brandenburg, Sandra Brix, and Christoph Sladeczek Chapter 11: Application of Extended Multichannel Techniques * Source Panning & Spreading * Panning and Source Imaging Techniques for Immersive Mixing * Panning in Object-based Systems * Spreading & Expanding of Source Image * An Immersive Overhaul for Preexisting Content * Envelopment * Reverberation * Other Time-Based Effects * Source Movement * Musings on Immersive Mixing Brett Leonard