SPREAD : Sound Propagation and Perception for Autonomous Agents in Dynamic Environments
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2013
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ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Association
Abstract
The perception of sensory information and its impact on behavior is a fundamental component of being human. While visual perception is considered for navigation, collision, and behavior selection, the acoustic domain is relatively unexplored. Recent work in acoustics focuses on synthesizing sound in 3D environments; however, the perception of acoustic signals by a virtual agent is a useful and realistic adjunct to any behavior selection mechanism. In this paper, we present SPREAD, a novel agent-based sound perception model using a discretized sound packet representation with acoustic features including amplitude, frequency range, and duration. SPREAD simulates how sound packets are propagated, attenuated, and degraded as they traverse the virtual environment. Agents perceive and classify the sounds based on the locally-received packet set using a hierarchical clustering scheme, and have individualized hearing and understanding of their surroundings. Using this model, we demonstrate several simulations that greatly enrich controls and outcomes.
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@inproceedings{10.1145:2485895.2485911,
booktitle = {Eurographics/ ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation},
editor = {Theodore Kim and Robert Sumner},
title = {{SPREAD : Sound Propagation and Perception for Autonomous Agents in Dynamic Environments}},
author = {Huang, Pengfei and Kapadia, Mubbasir and Badler, Norman I.},
year = {2013},
publisher = {ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1727-5288},
ISBN = {978-1-4503-2132-7},
DOI = {10.1145/2485895.2485911}
}