Efficient HRTF-based Spatial Audio for Area and Volumetric Sources

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1356-1366

  Schissler, Carl ^a,b   Nicholls, Aaron ^a   Mehra, Ravish ^a  

^a FACEBOOK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

area sources; HRTF; Spatial audio; spherical harmonics; volumetric sources

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SPHERES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

AREA SOURCES; HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION; HRTF; INTERACTIVE RATES; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; SPATIAL AUDIO; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; USER EVALUATIONS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84963851973     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2016.2518134     Document Type: Article

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