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Real-Time Implementation of Wave Field Synthesis on NU-Tech Framework Using CUDA Technology

Authors: Lattanzi, Ariano; Ciavattini, Emanuele; Cecchi, Stefania; Romoli, Laura; Ferrandi, Fabrizio

AES Convention 128 · Paper 7974 · May 2010

Abstract

In this paper we present a novel implementation of a Wave Field Synthesis application based on emerging NVIDIA Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) technology using NU-Tech Framework. CUDA technology unlocks the processing power of the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) which are characterized by a highly parallel architecture. A wide range of complex algorithms are being re-written in order to benefit from this new approach. Wave Filed Synthesis is a quite new spatial audio rendering technique highly demanding in terms of computational power. We present here results and comparisons between a NU-Tech Plug-In (NUTS) implementing real-time WFS using CUDA libraries and the same algorithm implemented using Intel Integrated Primitives (IPP) Library.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 128
AES Convention
128
Paper number
7974
Publication date
May 6, 2010
Session subject
Recording, Production, and Reproduction—Multichannel and Spatial Audio
Affiliation
Leaff Engineering, Ancona, Italy; Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy; Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper