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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTB.2007.14-B.4.273

'EVE-SoundTM' Toolkit for Interactive Sound in Virtual Environment  

Nam, Yang-Hee (이화여자대학교 디지털미디어학부)
Sung, Suk-Jeong (이화여자대학교 디지털미디어학부 미디어공학)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartB / v.14B, no.4, 2007 , pp. 273-280 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a new 3D sound toolkit called $EVE-Sound^{TM}$ that consists of pre-processing tool for environment simplification preserving sound effect and 3D sound API for real-time rendering. It is designed so that it can allow users to interact with complex 3D virtual environments by audio-visual modalities. $EVE-Sound^{TM}$ toolkit would serve two different types of users: high-level programmers who need an easy-to-use sound API for developing realistic 3D audio-visually rendered applications, and the researchers in 3D sound field who need to experiment with or develop new algorithms while not wanting to re-write all the required code from scratch. An interactive virtual environment application is created with the sound engine constructed using $EVE-Sound^{TM}$ toolkit, and it shows the real-time audio-visual rendering performance and the applicability of proposed $EVE-Sound^{TM}$ for building interactive applications with complex 3D environments.
Keywords
3D Sound; Audio-Visual Rendering; Virtual Environment; Sound Library; Interactive Contents;
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