The sound that puts you there.(Academic)(University of California Davis Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing)

R & D, August, 2004 by LaMotta, Lisa

While watching a symphony orchestra play, the sounds of the string section begin to take hold, emanating from left stage. Suddenly, you hear a French Horn begin to play while the booming sound of the percussion mixes in the background. Unfortunately, such experiences are lost with conventional recordings, which do not account for a listener's head motion and the acoustics of a room.

Looking to recreate this experience, researchers at the Interface Laboratory at the Univ. of California Davis Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing (CIPIC) have produced a new method of capturing and rendering sound. Developed by Ralph Algazi, Richard Duda, and Dennis Thompson, motion-tracked binaural sound (MTB) captures sound as heard by the human ear, including...

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