Title
Precomputed wave simulation for real-time sound propagation of dynamic sources in complex scenes
Abstract
We present a method for real-time sound propagation that captures all wave effects, including diffraction and reverberation, for multiple moving sources and a moving listener in a complex, static 3D scene. It performs an offline numerical simulation over the scene and then applies a novel technique to extract and compactly encode the perceptually salient information in the resulting acoustic responses. Each response is automatically broken into two phases: early reflections (ER) and late reverberation (LR), via a threshold on the temporal density of arriving wavefronts. The LR is simulated and stored in the frequency domain, once per room in the scene. The ER accounts for more detailed spatial variation, by recording a set of peak delays/amplitudes in the time domain and a residual frequency response sampled in octave frequency bands, at each source/receiver point pair in a 5D grid. An efficient run-time uses this precomputed representation to perform binaural sound rendering based on frequency-domain convolution. Our system demonstrates realistic, wave-based acoustic effects in real time, including diffraction low-passing behind obstructions, sound focusing, hollow reverberation in empty rooms, sound diffusion in fully-furnished rooms, and realistic late reverberation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1833349.1778805
ACM Trans. Graph.
Keywords
Field
DocType
residual frequency response,real-time sound propagation,octave frequency band,frequency domain,complex scene,er account,hollow reverberation,dynamic source,precomputed wave simulation,realistic late reverberation,binaural sound,sound diffusion,late reverberation,real time rendering,real time
Time domain,Frequency domain,Wavefront,Reverberation,Frequency response,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Acoustics,Binaural recording,Rendering (computer graphics),Diffraction
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
29
4
0730-0301
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
32
1.55
6
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nikunj Raghuvanshi132621.56
John Snyder22579172.17
Ravish Mehra328117.42
Ming Lin47046525.99
Naga K. Govindaraju53331234.15