Spatial Sound

Bosun Xie is the director of the Acoustics Lab at South China University of Technology, and a member of The Chinese State Key Lab of Subtropical Building Science. He is a vice-president of the Acoustical Society of China, a vice-chairman of the China Audio Engineering Society, a member of Acoustical Society of American (ASA), and a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES).

1. Sound Field, Spatial Hearing, and Sound Reproduction 2. Two-Channel Stereophonic Sound 3. Basic Principle and Analysis on Multichannel Surround Sound 4. Multichannel Horizontal Surround Sound with a Regular Loudspeaker Configuration 5. Multichannel Horizontal Surround Sound with Irregular Loudspeaker Configuration 6. Multichannel Spatial Surround Sound 7. Microphone and Signal Simulation Techniques for Multichannel Sound 8. Matrix Surround Sound and Downmixing/Upmixing of Multichannel Sound Signals 9. Physical Analysis on Multichannel Sound Field Recording and Reconstruction 10. Spatial Sound Reproduction by Wave Field Synthesis 11. Binaural Reproduction and Virtual Auditory Display 12. Binaural Pressures and Auditory Model Analysis on Spatial Sound Reproduction 13. Storage and Transmission of Spatial Sound Signals 14. Acoustic Conditions and Requirements for the Subjective Assessment and Monitoring of Spatial Sound 15. Psychoacoustic and Subjective Assessment Experiments on Spatial Sound 16. Applications of Spatial Sound and Related Problems Appendix A Spherical Harmonic Functions Appendix B Some Statistical Methods for the Data of Psychoacoustic and Subjective Assessment Experiment Reference