Links to audio three-dimensional sound research centers around the world and to web sites of researchers in the field.
Interactive Audio Special Interest Group (IA-SIG). "Exists to allow developers of audio software, hardware, and content to freely exchange ideas about "interactive audio". The goal of the group is to improve the performance of interactive applications by influencing hardware and software design, as well as leveraging the combined skills of the audio community to make better tools." Includes links to papers, software, research centers etc.
http://www.iasig.org/Digital Interactive Virtual Acoustics (DIVA). DIVA is a collaboration project of the Telecommunication Software and Multimedia Laboratory and the Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing at the Helsinki University of Technology. The project is a collaborative research group of the following topics: Real-time automatic character animation, interaction through motion analysis, sound generation with physical instrument models acoustics modeling and auralization EVE.
http://www.tml.hut.fi/Research/DIVAHRTF Measurements for the DIVA Project:
http://www.lce.hut.fi/~kar/hrtf_measures.htmlSpatial Audio Systems at the University of Aizu. Good links and many papers on-line. Also links to the Pioneer Sound Field Control System - "a hemispherical 14-loudspeaker array, installed at the University of Aizu Multimedia Center. Along with a large screen rear-projection stereographic display, the PSFC features real-time control of virtual room characteristics and direction of two separate sound sources smoothly steering them around a configurable soundscape. The PSFC controls an entire sound field, including sound direction, virtual distance, and simulated environment
(reverb level, room size and "liveness") for each source".
http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/~mcohen/spatial-media/spatial-audioWeb Site of Professor Michael Cohen - 3D sound researcher at Spatial Media Group Human Interface Lab at the University of Aizu
http://wwwsv1.u-aizu.ac.jp/~mcohen/MIT Machine Listening Group. Various research projects and many publications.
http://sound.media.mit.edu/Virtual Acoustics Project - University of Southampton - 'stereo dipole' to describe a virtual source imaging system that comprises two closely spaced loudspeakers.
http://www.isvr.soton.ac.uk/FDAG/vap/pages/sd.htmAcoustic Laboratory, Department of Information and Communication Engineering. Research Activities include: 3D audio applications, hearing, active control of sound and vibration, simulation technique of an acoustic field and its evaluation... Also a description of the 'stereo-dipole' is given.
http://www.sound.sie.dendai.ac.jp/Web site of Suzuki Laboratory (Acoustic Information Systems). "The research in this laboratory is concerned with information processing in the realm of human auditory systems. In particular, we apply psychoacoustical approach to the study of fundamental characteristics of human auditory system such as timbre perception process, loudness perception and sound localization. Moreover, perception of sound in the impaired, perception and evaluation of environmental noise are also being critically investigated in this laboratory. We also focus our research on the realization of a comfortable' sound environment exploiting digital signal processing techniques".
http://viola.ais.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/Itakura Laboratory. Their interests include acoustic signal and speech processing technologies in the context of human communications. Projects include: acoustic virtual reality systems, large vocabulary continuous speech recognition systems, robust speech recognition system, speech signal processing, acoustic scene analysis... Includes links to software, publications demos etc.
http://www.itakura.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jpThe Department of Acoustics, Institute of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University. Research interests include issues related to human sound perception and electroacoustics. Links to publications and research.
http://acoustics.auc.dk/The CIPIC HRTF Database: The CIPIC HRTF Database is a public-domain database of high-spatial-resolution HRTF measurements for 45 different subjects, including the KEMAR mannequin with both small and large pinnae. Data set includes Matlab code to view and experiment with the HRTF set. Also includes detailed instructions. Fairly large file however ~180MB!
http://phosphor.cipic.ucdavis.edu/CIL_html/CIL_HRTF_database.htmMichigan State Acoustics/Psychoacoustics: "Our goal is to understand how the human brain processes sound. We make mathematical models of the perception process and test these models against experiments on human listeners". Links available to their research projects which include: pitch perception and auditory organization, sound localization, signal detection theory, musical acoustics
http://www.pa.msu.edu/acoustics/Hearing Development Research Lab - Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin. Research related to the mechanisms and processes of human hearing. Also includes HRTF data set available for free download. Also includes publications.
http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/hdrl/index.htmlDigital Signal Processing (DSP) laboratory at the Florida International University. Some Audio related research including research related to HRTFs
http://dsplab.eng.fiu.edu/DSP/Audio research Group at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Web site includes many audio and acoustics related related links, as well as links to publications/papers.
http://audiolab.uwaterloo.ca/
