Immersive Sound

"Cover"--"Title"--"Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Contributors" -- "Foreword" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Introduction" -- "1 Perception of Spatial Sound" -- "Auditory Physiology" -- "Human Sound Localization" -- "Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) and Virtual Acoustics" -- "Neural Plasticity in Sound Localization" -- "Distance and Environmental Context Perception" -- "Conclusion" -- "2 History of 3D Sound" -- "Introduction" -- "Prehistory" -- "Ancient History" -- "Space and Polyphony" -- "Spatial Separation in the Renaissance" -- "Spatial Innovations in Acoustic Music" -- "3D Sound Technology" -- "Technology and Spatial Music" -- "Conclusions and Thoughts for the Future" -- "3 Stereo" -- "Stereo Systems" -- "Creating a Stereo Image" -- "Stereo Enhancement" -- "Summary" -- "4 Binaural Audio Through Headphones" -- "Headphone Reproduction" -- "Binaural Sound Capture" -- "HRTF Measurement" -- "Binaural Synthesis" -- "Inside-the-Head Locatedness" -- "Advanced HRTF Techniques" -- "Quality Assessment" -- "Binaural Reproduction Methods" -- "Headphone Equalization and Calibration" -- "Conclusions" -- "Appendix: Near Field" -- "5 Binaural Audio Through Loudspeakers" -- "Introduction" -- "The Fundamental XTC Problem" -- "Constant-Parameter Regularization" -- "Frequency-Dependent Regularization" -- "The Analytical BACCH Filter" -- "Individualized BACCH Filters" -- "Conclusions" -- "Appendix A: Derivation of the Optimal XTC Filter" -- "Appendix B: Numerical Verification" -- "6 Surround Sound" -- "The Evolution of Surround Sound" -- "Surround Sound Formats" -- "Surround Sound Delivery and Coding" -- "Surround Sound Monitoring" -- "Surround Sound Recording Techniques" -- "Perceptual Evaluation" -- "Predictive Models of Surround Sound Quality" -- "7 Height Channels" -- "Background" -- "Fundamental Psychoacoustics of Height-Channel Perception