Comparative study of design and implementation strategies of automotive virtual surround audio systems

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 141-159

  Bai, Mingsian R ^a   Lee, Chih Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; AMBIENT NOISE; AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEMS; CHANNEL INPUTS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; CONFINED SPACE; DESIGN APPROACHES; FOUR-CHANNEL; IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES; INVERSE FILTERING; INVERSE FILTERS; METHOD OF REVERBERATION; MULTI-CHANNEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCES; NONIDEAL; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; RENDERING PERFORMANCE; RENDERING QUALITY; SPATIAL AUDIO; SPATIAL SOUND; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST; SURROUND AUDIO SYSTEMS; TWO-CHANNEL; VIRTUAL SOUND IMAGES;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DECISION MAKING; DESIGN; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVERBERATION;

AUDIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 77950622608     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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