Topic:

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Group Members:

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Urs Batzel

Mike Seltzer

Proposal:

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We are going to attempt to render a monophonic audio stream into a virtual

3D environment. This will entail more of research effort than a straight

coding/standard implementation. We plan to perform a literature search to

study the methods used in 3D audio rendering. We will then attempt to

implement these algorithms in software, probably using MATLAB. Finally,

we hope to develop test environment for our system and test the

perceptual performance of our design on several subjects.

Mid-Term Goals:

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o Complete literature search

o Beginning Software Implementation

o Summary Report of Liturature Search & Current Spatial Audio Methods

o Implementation/Demonstration of Preliminary 3D Audio Building

Blocks/Implementations

Final Goals:

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o Final Algorithm Development

o Complete Implementation

o Find/Create Test Audio Streams

o Develop Perceptual Test

o Test System on Several Subjects

o Analysis, including comparison to existing 3D audio systems & algorithms