Center for Human Modeling and Simulation

Document Type

Conference Paper

Date of this Version

2013

Publication Source

Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '13)

Start Page

135

Last Page

144

DOI

10.1145/2485895.2485911

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.

Copyright/Permission Statement

© ACM 2013. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in Eurographics Symposium of Computer Animation (SCA '13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2485895.2485911.

Keywords

autonomous agent, sound representation, sound propagation, sound perception

Download

Share

COinS
 

Date Posted: 29 February 2016