Voxel-based occlusion and diffraction modelling for the upcoming ISO/MPEG standard for VR and AR

Terentiv L, Fersch C, Fischer D, Setiawan P. Voxel-based occlusion and diffraction modelling for the upcoming ISO/MPEG standard for VR and AR. In: AES Conference: AES 2022 International Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality Conference. Audio Engineering Society; 2022. Paper 10. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21840

@inproceedings{Terentiv2022_21840,
  author = {Terentiv, Leon and Fersch, Christof and Fischer, Daniel and Setiawan, Panji},
  title = {{Voxel-based occlusion and diffraction modelling for the upcoming ISO/MPEG standard for VR and AR}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: AES 2022 International Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality Conference},
  note = {Paper 10},
  year = {2022},
  month = aug,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21840}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Voxel-based occlusion and diffraction modelling for the upcoming ISO/MPEG standard for VR and AR
AU  - Terentiv, Leon
AU  - Fersch, Christof
AU  - Fischer, Daniel
AU  - Setiawan, Panji
T2  - AES Conference: AES 2022 International Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality Conference
M1  - Paper 10
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/08/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21840
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Following recent trends of fully immersive virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29 WG6, MPEG Audio coding, decided to create the MPEG-I Audio work-item for standardizing a solution for audio rendering in such applications, in which the user can navigate and interact with the environment using 6 degrees of freedom (6DoF). One of the main capabilities of MPEG-I Audio will be the support of real-time modeling of acoustic occlusion and diffraction effects for geometrically complex VR/AR scenes, including a high degree of user interactivity. This can be achieved by employing a voxel-based representation of sound-occluding scene elements in combination with computationally efficient rendering algorithms, operating on uniform 3D voxel grids and their 2D projections. This paper describes the chosen reference model architecture for voxel-based acoustic occlusion and diffraction modeling, operating modes and envisioned applications. In addition, it summarizes the current status of the MPEG-I Audio standardization process.
ER  -