Sound Synthesis

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.

Publications

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Diffraction Kernels for Interactive Sound Propagation in Dynamic Environments  2018.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Special Issue IEEE VR)

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Reflection-Aware Sound Source Localization  2018.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

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Noise Field Control using Active Sound Propagation and Optimization  2018.
International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement

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MPARD: A High-Frequency Wave-Based Acoustic Solver for Very Large Compute Clusters  2017.
Applied Acoustics

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Acoustic Classification and Optimization for Multi-Modal Rendering of Real-World Scenes  2017.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (ISMAR Presentation)

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Tracing Analytic Ray Curves for Light and Sound Propagation in Non-linear Media  2016.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

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SynCoPation: Interactive Synthesis-Coupled Sound Propagation  2016.
IEEE TVCG

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Interactive Modal Sound Synthesis Using Generalized Proportional Damping  2016.
ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D)

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Effcient Wave-Based Acoustic Material Design Optimization  2016.
Symposium on Solid & Physical Modeling

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WAVE: Interactive Wave-based Sound Propagation for Virtual Environments  2015.
Proceedings of IEEE VR

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Source and Listener Directivity for Interactive Wave-based Sound Propagation  2014.
IEEE VR 2014 (Special issue of IEEE TVCG)

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Acoustic pulse propagation in an urban environment using a three-dimensional numerical simulation  2014.
The Journal of Acoustical Society of America

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Efficient HRTF Computation using Adaptive Rectangular Decomposition  2014.
Proc. of AES Conference on Spatial Audio 2014

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P-HRTF: Efficient Personalized HRTF Computation for High-Fidelity Spatial Sound  2014.
Proc. of ISMAR

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Wave-Based Sound Propagation in Large Open Scenes using an Equivalent Source Formulation  2013.
ACM Transactions on Graphics

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Validation of adaptive rectangular decomposition for three-dimensional wave-based acoustic simulation in architectural models  2013.
International Congress on Acoustics

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Wave-Ray Coupling for Interactive Sound Propagation in Large Complex Scenes  2013.
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc SIGGRAPH Asia)

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Interactive Sound Propagation Using Compact Acoustic Transfer Operators  2012.
ACM Transactions on Graphics

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Tabletop Ensemble: Touch-enabled Virtual Percussion Instruments  2012.
ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D)

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Designing Virtual Instruments with Touch-enabled Interfaces  2012.
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Case Study

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Guided Multiview Ray Tracing for Fast Auralization  2012.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)

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Example-guided Physically Based Modal Sound Synthesis  2012.
ACM Transactions on Graphics

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A real-time sound propagation system for noise prediction in outdoor spaces  2012.
INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings

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Direct-to-indirect Acoustic Radiance Transfer  2011.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)

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GSound: Interactive Sound Propagation for Games  2011.
AES International Conference on Audio for Games, no. P2-6

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Efficient Geometric Sound Propagation Using Visibility Culling  2011.
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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An Efficient GPU-based Time Domain Solver for the Acoustic Wave Equation  2011.
Applied Acoustics

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Sounding Liquids: Automatic Sound Synthesis from Fluid Simulation  2010.
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc ACM SIGGRAPH)

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Precomputed Wave Simulation for Real-time Sound Propagation of Dynamic Sources in Complex Scenes  2010.
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc ACM SIGGRAPH)

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Interactive Geometric Sound Propagation and Rendering  2010.
Intel Software Network

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i-Sound: Interactive GPU-based Sound Auralization in Dynamic Scenes  2010.

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Fast Geometric Sound Propagation with Finite Edge Diffraction  2010.

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Fast and Accurate Geometric Sound Propagation Using Visibility Computations  2010.
International Symposium on Room Acoustics (ISRA)

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Use of GPUs in Room Acoustic Modeling and Auralization  2010.
International Symposium on Room Acoustics (ISRA)

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Interactive Physically-based Sound Simulation  2010.
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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FastV: From-point Visibility Culling on Complex Models  2009.
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)

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Fast Edge-diffraction for Sound Propagation in Complex Virtual Environments  2009.
EAA Auralization Symposium

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RESound: Interactive Sound Rendering for Dynamic Virtual Environments  2009.
ACM Multimedia (MM)

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Accelerated Wave-based Acoustics Simulation  2008.
ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM)

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AD-FRUSTA: Adaptive Frustum Tracing for Interactive Sound Propagation  2008.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)

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Interactive Sound Propagation in Dynamic Scenes Using Frustum Tracing  2007.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)

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Real-time sound synthesis and propagation for games  2007.
Communications of the ACM (CACM)

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