Immersive audio for the desktop

Author

Kyriakakis, C. ; Holman, T.

Author_Institution

Integrated Media Syst. Center, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

6

fYear

1998

fDate

12-15 May 1998

Firstpage

3753

Abstract

Integrated media workstations are increasingly being used for creating, editing, and monitoring sound that is associated with video or computer-generated images. While the requirements for high quality reproduction in large-scale systems are well understood, these have not yet been adequately translated to the workstation environment. We discuss several factors that pertain to high quality sound reproduction at the desktop including acoustical considerations, signal processing requirements, and listener location issues. We also present a novel desktop system design with integrated listener-tracking capability that circumvents several of the problems faced by current digital audio and video workstations

Keywords

Hi-Fi equipment; acoustic signal processing; audio-visual systems; sound reproduction; tracking; video signal processing; workstations; acoustical considerations; computer-generated images; desktop system design; digital audio-video workstations; high quality reproduction; integrated listener-tracking; integrated media workstations; large-scale systems; listener location; loudspeakers; multichannel desktop audio system; signal processing requirements; sound creation; sound editing; sound monitoring; video images; Acoustic distortion; Acoustic reflection; Acoustic signal processing; Audio systems; Computer displays; Computerized monitoring; Frequency response; Large-scale systems; Loudspeakers; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4428-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1998.679700

Filename

679700