Subject description - BE2M37PAK
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Anotation:
The course presents fundamental concepts from room acoustics including propagation of sound in various types of media, methods for acoustic treatments and evaluation of both objective and subjective. The second part of the course relates to technology of spatial sound and methods for its implementation both in listening rooms and in headphones. Both parts are focused on practice of technicians in recording studios.
Course outlines:
| 1. | | Waves in a free field, types of waves |
| 2. | | Acoustics of closed spaces |
| 3. | | Subjective and objective methods of evaluating room acoustics |
| 4. | | Methods of acoustic treatment |
| 5. | | Measuring methods in room acoustics |
| 6. | | Subjective measuring methods - fundamentals of psychometry |
| 7. | | Acoustics of small spaces, sound reinforcement |
| 8. | | Sound insulation of space |
| 9. | | Methods of impulse response measurement (MLS, sweep) |
| 10. | | Fundamentals of spatial sound, binaural sound |
| 11. | | Sound capture and reproduction in traditional channel systems |
| 12. | | Ambisonics of the first and higher orders. WFS |
| 13. | | Object-oriented audio, Audio Definition Model |
| 14. | | Application examples, audio for VR, Auditory display |
Exercises outline:
| 1. | | Introduction, seminar on sound propagation |
| 2. | | Introduction to lab excercises |
| 3. | | Eigenmodes measurement |
| 4. | | 5. |
| 6. | | 7. |
| 8. | | Transfer function measurement using EASERA |
| 9. | | Implementation of sweep method in Matlab |
| 10. | | Implementation of MLSSA method in Matlab |
| 11. | | HRTF |
| 12. | | Ambisonics |
| 13. | | Consultation/back-up for the length of the semester |
| 14. | | Credit |
Literature:
Recommended literature:
| [1] | | Kuttruff, H., Vorlaender, M.: Room Acoustics, 7th edition, CRC Press 2024 |
| [2] | | Xie, B.: Spatial Sound: Principles and Applications, 1st ed. CRC Press 2022 |
| [3] | | catalog sheets of acoustic material manufacturers. |
Other study aids include lecture materials in Moodle, lab materials.
Requirements:
Students should master knowledge of maths, physics, signal theory and electric circuits theory at the bachelor state exam level.
Keywords:
acoustics, audio signal processing,
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Proposal and Realization: I. Halaška (K336), J. Novák (K336) |