Efficient Evaluation of Reverberant Sound Fields
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چکیده
An image method due to Allen and Berkley (1979) is often used to simulate the effect of reverberation in rooms. This method is relatively expensive computationally. We present a fast method for conducting such simulations using multipole expansions. For M real and image sources and N evaluation points, while the image method requiresO(MN) operations, our method achieves the calculations in O(M + N) operations, resulting in a substantial speedup. Applications of our technique are also expected in simulation of virtual audio.
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