General
The Virtual Acoustics course will be run in remote mode. The lectures will be in Zoom and they are on Wednesdays at 15-18. Each lecture will be 2 x 45mins. In addition, there will be a Matlab demo session 45mins to explain a new task for the home assignment and/or explanation of the correct solutions for the previous week's assignment.
The main teachers will be prof. Tapio Lokki and prof. Sebastian J. Schlecht. In addition, MSc Chris Hold and MSc Nils Meyer-Kahlen will be teaching assistants, in particular for the home assignments.
Course communication is done via Slack. Please sign in and join #virtual-acoustics
https://join.slack.com/t/buildingvirtualworlds/shared_invite/zt-k8a5ppmd-ShjqF3UmdKGRHeK7bTHMaw
| Date | Topic | Lecturer | Assignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13.01.2021 | Introduction, practicalities, convolution, auralization (off-line + real-time) | Tapio | |
| Assignment Session: introduction of the rendering pipeline and the weekly assignments | Sebastian / Nils | ||
| 20.01.2021 | Head-Related Transfer Functions + binaural rendering | Tapio | Due A1 |
| Assignment Session: Explanation of A1 + introduction of A2 | Sebastian / Nils | ||
| 27.01.2021 | Vector Base Amplitude Panning | Ville Pulkki | |
| Q&A Session | S/N/C | ||
| 03.02.2021 | Ambisonics - Mathematical basis, Encoding, Decoder | Chris Hold | Due A2 |
| Assignment Session: Explanation of A2 + introduction of A3 | Sebastian / Chris | ||
| 10.02.2021 | Measurement-based spatial reverberation - capturing, SIRR and SDM | Nils | |
| Q&A Session | S/N/C | ||
| 17.02.2021 | Room Acoustics - Ray-based modeling | Lauri Savioja | Due A3 |
| Assignment Session: Explanation of A3 + introduction of A4 | Sebastian / Nils | ||
| 03.03.2021 | Room Acoustics - Wave-based modeling | Lauri Savioja | |
| Q&A Session | S/N/C | ||
| 10.03.2021 | Artificial reverberation - overview and DSP structures | Vesa Välimäki | Due A4 |
| Assignment Session: Explanation of A4 + introduction of A5 | Sebastian / Nils | ||
| 17.03.2021 | Artificial reverberation - Feedback Delay Networks | Sebastian | |
| Q&A Session | S/N/C | ||
| 24.03.2021 | Directional Audio Coding | Ville Pulkki | Due A5 |
| Assignment Session: Explanation of A5 + introduction of A6 | Sebastian / Chris | ||
| 31.03.2021 | Augmented Reality Audio | Tapio | |
| Q&A Session | S/N/C | ||
| 07.04.2021 | Students presentation of their A6 solutions | Sebastian | Due A6 |