Sound Synthesis and Propagation

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in sound rendering for interactive applications. Our group has been working on novel algorithms for sound synthesis, as well as geometric and numeric approaches for sound propagation.

Acoustic Optimization

• Receiver placement for speech enhancement using sound propagation optimization, Applied Acoustics 2019
• Optimizing source placement for noise minimization using hybrid acoustic simulation, CAD 2018
• Efficient Wave-Based Acoustic Material Design Optimization, SPM 2016
• Dynamic Sound Field Synthesis for Speech and Music Optimization, ACM MM 2018

Augmented Reality

• Acoustic Classification and Optimization for Multi-Modal Rendering of Real-World Scenes, IEEE TVCG 2017

Sound Synthesis

• Audio-Material Reconstruction for Virtualized Reality Using a Probabilistic Damping Model, IEEE VR/TVCG 2019
• ISNN: Impact Sound Neural Network for Audio-Visual Object Classification, ECCV 2018
• Glass Half Full: Sound Synthesis for Fluid-Structure Coupling Using Added Mass Operator, CGI 2017
• Interactive Modal Sound Synthesis Using Generalized Proportional Damping, I3D 2016
• SynCoPation: Interactive Synthesis-Coupled Sound Propagation, IEEE VR/TVCG 2016
• Integrated Multimodal Interaction Using Normal Maps, GI 2015
• Example-Guided Physically Based Model Sound Synthesis, SIGGRAPH 2013
• Tabletop Ensemble: Touch-Enabled Virtual Percussion Instruments, I3D 2012
• Sounding Liquids: Automatic Sound Synthesis from Fluid Simulation, SIGGRAPH 2010
• Synthesizing Contact Sounds Between Textured Models, IEEE VR 2010
• Symphony: Real-time Physically-based Sound Synthesis for Large Scale Environments, I3D 2006

Interactive Sound Propagation

• Diffraction Kernels for Interactive Sound Propagation in Dynamic Environments, IEEE VR 2018
• Interactive Sound Propagation and Rendering for Large Multi-Source Scenes, ACM TOG 2016
• Adaptive Impulse Response Modeling for Interactive Sound Propagation, I3D 2016
• Sound Propagation for Professional Audio Production, Software Package
• WAVE: Interactive Wave-based Sound Propagation for Virtual Environments, IEEE VR/TVCG 2015
• High-Order Diffraction and Diffuse Reflections for Interactive Sound Propagation in Large Environments, SIGGRAPH 2014
• Efficiency Light and Sound Propagation in Refractive Media with Analytic Ray Curve Tracer, IEEE TVCG 2014
• Rendering environmental voice reverberation for large-scale distributed virtual worlds, Tec. Report 2013
• Aural Proxies and Directionally-Varying Reverberation for Interactive Sound Propagation in Virtual Environments, IEEE VR/TVCG 2013
• Interactive Sound Propagation using Compact Acoustic Transfer Operators, ACM TOG 2012
• GSound: Interactive Sound Propagation and Rendering for Games, AES 2011
• Direct-to-Indirect Acoustic Radiance Transfer, IEEE TVCG 2010
• iSound: Interactive GPU-based Sound Auralization in Dynamic Scenes, Tec. Report 2010
• Interactive Edge-diffraction for Sound Propagation in Complex Virtual Environments, EAA Symposium on Auralization 2009
• RESound: Interactive Sound Rendering for Dynamic Virtual Environments, ACM MM 2009
• AD-Frustum: Adaptive Frustum Tracing for Interactive Sound Propagation, IEEE Visualization 2008
• Interactive Sound Propagation in Dynamic Scenes using Frustum Tracing, IEEE Visualization 2007

Accurate Geometric and Numeric Sound Propagation

• Efficient Wave-Based Acoustic Material Design Optimization, SPM 2016
• Efficient Light and Sound Propagation in Refractive Media with Analytic Ray Curve Tracer, IEEE TVCG 2015
• Source and Listener Directivity for Interactive Wave-based Sound Propagation, IEEE VR/TVCG 2014
• Acoustic Pulse Propagation in an Urban Environment using an 3D Numerical Simulation, JASA 2014
• Wave-Ray Coupling for Interactive Sound Propagation in Large Complex Scenes, SIGGRAPH Asia 2013
• Wave-based Sound Propagation in Large Open Scenes using an Equivalent Source Formulation, ACM TOG 2013
• An Efficient Time-domain Solver for the Acoustic Wave Equation on Graphics Processors, Applied Acoustics 2012
• Precomputed Wave Simulation for Real-Time Sound Propagation of Dynamic Sources in Complex Scenes, SIGGRAPH 2010
• Fast Geometric Sound Propagation with Finite Edge Diffraction, Tec. Report 2010
• Fast and Accurate Specular Reflection Computation Using Visibility Culling, EGSR 2009
• Efficient Numerical Simulation of Sound Propagation, IEEE TVCG 2009

Spatial Audio

• Efficient Personalized HRTF Computation for High-Fidelity Spatial Sound, ISMAR 2014

Psycho-acoustic Evaluation

• P-Reverb: Perceptual Characterization of Early and Late Reflections for Auditory Displays, IEEE VR 2019
• Effects of virtual acoustics on target-word identification performance in multi-talker environments, ACM SAP 2018
• Effects of virtual acoustics on dynamic auditory distance perception, JASA 2017
• Psychoacoustic Characterization of Propagation Effects in Virtual Environments, ACM TAP 2016

Dataset

• SynIR: Synthetic Impulse Response Dataset using Geometric Sound Propagation