Acoustic Spaces Extension

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h1. Acoustic Spaces Extension
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describing properties of acoustic rooms, as needed by renderers who model spaces.
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    * Room size
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    * Room shape
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    * Material/damping of walls
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          o frequency dependent
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          o Units: % Absorptions
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          o diffusion
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    * Environmental variables
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          o Humidity
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          o Temperature
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h2. Reviews
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h3. Master thesis by Karin Münnich, chapter 3. p. 41 [1]
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    * Room Presence: energy of the early reflections in percentage to direct sound 
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    * Envelopment:  energy of the late reverb in percentage to direct sound 
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    * Running Reverb: early decay rate of the late reverb
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    * LateReverb: general decay rate of the late reverb 
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    * Heaviness: energy of the LF-component of the late reverb
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      o Frequency: x-frequency between LF and Mids
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    * Liveness: energy of the HF-component of the late reverb  
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      o Frequency: x-frequency between Mids and HF   
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The proposed parameter for a scene description format base mainly on the MPEG-4 specification [2], chapter 9.4.2.83.
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h1. References
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[1] Münnich, K. Untersuchung und Implementierung von Speicher- und Übertragungsformaten für Mischwerkzeuge der Klangfeldsynthese. Master’s thesis, 2003, Technische Universität Ilmenau.
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[2] ISO/IEC. ISO/IEC 14496-1:2002. Information Technology - Coding of audiovisual objects - Part 1: Systems. 2002.