A wavelet synthesis technique for creating realistic virtual environment sounds

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 493-507

  Miner, Nadine E ^a   Caudell, Thomas P ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAVELET SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0036814628     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/105474602320935838     Document Type: Article

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