A room acoustics design tool for MPEG-4 conforming scene design

Abstract

The,following paper disciisses issiies regarding scene composifion Jor 3D interactive aiidiovisiial applicafion systems. These sy fems genei-al/,v provide auditopfeedhack to flte iaer. so that a virtual room can be e-rperienced hoth visriall~ and acowficall,v. Uiifil now, the desgrt prucess ($the room acoiistic propei-tie.7 has always been separatedftom the process of vistral modelling of the room, main@ hecallst! the fools that scene de.signers normally iise do not provide the necessaiy feuhires Jar on acoustic descripfion. The work presented here is a snccessfiil approach fo solve this problem. It simp/,/;e.s the modelling task while consideidly shortening tile time iiecessar?, 10 &sign sirch scenes.' Index Terms Acoustic Design, Acoustic Texturing Tool, M P E G 4 AudioBIFS, Virtual Acoustics.