Interactive Sound Rendering

SIGGRAPH COURSE: 2009
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Organizer:

Dinesh Manocha

Lecturers (alphabetic order):

Paul Calamia, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha, Lauri Savioja, Nicolas Tsingos

Abstract

This course covers algorithmic and software technologies for interactive sound rendering. The presentation material will be covered at an introductory level and the audience is not expected to have any significant background in acoustic simulation. The course lectures cover three main parts: Overview of different physically-based techniques to synthesize sounds generated from colliding objects to liquid sounds; basic techniques used to turn the computed sound reflection or diffraction paths into audible sound; exploit the computational capabilities of current multi-core commodity processors for real-time sound propagation and rendering for gaming and interactive applications. The presentations will include audio demonstrations that will highlight various processing components in practice.

Each instructor has a research group that has been working on new technologies related to sound synthesis, sound propagation or auralization. Moreover some of the instructors have worked closely with game developers in integrating these technologies. The presentation material is rather introductory and audience will get an overview of sound rendering as well as some recent research developments.

 

Course Schedule

8:30am: Introduction (Manocha)

8:45am: Sound Rendering (Savioja)

9:20am: Interactive Sound Synthesis: Rigid Models; Liquid Sounds (Lin)

9:50am: Perceptual Audio Rendering (Tsingos)

10:30am: Geometric Sound Propagation (Manocha)

10:50am: Simulating Diffraction (Calamia)

11:20am: Numeric Sound Propagation (Lin)

11:40am: Accelerations on Multi-core CPUs and Many-core GPUs (Manocha and Savioja)

12:00pm: Integration into Game Engines (Tsingos)

 

List of Papers

  1. N. Raghuvanshi, C. Lauterbach, A. Chandak, D. Manocha and M. Lin, "Real-Time Sound Synthesis and Propagation for Games", Communications of the ACM, Vo. 50, No. 7, July 2007, pp. 67-73.
  2. P. Calamia, B. E. Markham and U. P. Svennson, "Diffraction Culling for Virtual-Acoustic Simulations", ACTA ACUSTICA UNITED WITH ACUSTICA, Vol. 94, 2008, pp. 907-920.
  3. P. Calamai and U. P. Svensson, "Fast Time-Domain Edge-Diffraction Calculations for Interactive Acoustic Simulations", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, ARTICLE ID 63560, 10 pages, 2007.
  4. N. Bonneel, G. Drettakis, N. Tsingos, I. Viaud-Delmon and D. James, "Fast Modal Sounds with Scalable Frequency-Domain Synthesis", Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, 2008, 10 pages.
  5. T. Moeck, N. Bonneel, N. Tsingos, G. Drettakis, I. Viaud-Delmon and D. Alloza, "Progressive Perceptual Audio Rendering of Complex Scenes", Proceedings of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, pp. 189-196, 2007.
  6. N. Tsingos, "Using Programmable Graphics Hardware for Auralization", Proceedings of the EAA Symposium on Auralization, 2009, 10 pages.
  7. L. Savijoa, J. Huopaniemi, T. Lokki, and R. Vannanen, "Creating Interactive Virtual Environments", Journal of Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 47, No. 9, pp. 675-705, September 1999.
  8. N. Tsingos, E. Gallo, and G. Drettakis, "Perceptual Audio Rendering of Complex Virtual Environments", Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, 2004, 10 pages.
  9. U. P. Svensson, R. Fred, and J. Vanderkooy, "An Analytic Secondary Source Model of Edge Diffraction Impulse Responses", Journal of Acoustic Society of America, vol. 105, number 5, 14 pages, November 1999.
  10. N. Raghuvanshi and M. Lin, "Interactive Sound Synthesis for Large Scale Environments", Proceedings of Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, 9 pages, 2006.
  11. N. Tsingos, T. Funkhouser, A. Ngan, and I. Carlbom, "Modeling Acoustics in Virtual Environments", Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, 2001, 9 pages.
  12. A. Chandak, L. Antani, M. Taylor, and D. Manocha, "FastV: From-Point Visibility Culling and Application to Sound Rendering", Technical Report TR09-008, Department of Computer Science, UNC, 2009.
  13. C. Lauterbach, A. Chandak, and D. Manocha, "Interactive Sound Rendering in Complex and Dynamic Scenes using Frustum Tracing", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, volume 13, number 6, 8 pages, 2007.
  14. A. Chandak, C. Lauterbach, M. Taylor, Z. Ren and D. Manocha, "AD-Frustum: Adaptive Frustum Tracing for Interactive Sound Propagation", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, volume 14, number 6, 8 pages, 2008.
  15. M. Taylor, A. Chandak, Z. Ren, C. Lauterbach, and D. Manocha, "Fast Edge-Diffraction for Sound Propagation in Complex Virtual Environments", Proceedings of the EAA Auralization Symposium, 2009, 6 pages.
  16. N. Raghuvanshi, B. Lloyd, N. Govindaraju and M. C. Lin, "Efficient Numerical Acoustic Simulation on Graphics Processors using Adaptive Rectangular Decomposition", Proceedings of the EAA Auralization Symposium, 2009, 6 pages.
  17. N. Raghuvanshi, R. Narain," and M. C." Lin, "Efficient and Accurate Sound Propagation Using Adaptive Rectangular Decomposition", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 10 pages, 2009.