Session B, 8:00 am
Microphones and Applications
Chairman: David L. Josephson, Josephson Engineering, San Jose, CA, USA
Recording Baroque Organs in Big Churches -- Gerard Hali, Producer, Heemskerk, The Netherlands
Development of Ice-Zone Microphone for Skating Sound Pick-Up -- Akira Morita, Masakazu Iwaki, and Shin-ichi Chiba, NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan
Measurement and Intelligibility Optimization of Directional Microphones for Use in Hearing-Aid Devices -- Matthew Roberts and Robert Schulein, Etymotic Research, Elk Grove Village, IL, USA
Important Design Factors for Miniature Microphones -- Ole Brøsted Sørensen, Danish Pro Audio, Allerød, Denmark (Invited)
Psychoacoustic Effects of Ringing in Microphones -- Jacquelynn Hebrock, Chuck Kraft, and Kelly Statham, Audio-Technica U.S., Inc., Stow, OH, USA
Loudness Compensation by Microphone Frequency Response and Microphone Placement -- Bruce Bartlett, Crown International, Elkhart, IN, USA
Measurements on Studio Microphones -- Stephan Peus, Georg Neumann GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Towards a Digitally Interfaced Microphone Standard -- Steven Harris and Xue-Mei Gong, Crystal Semiconductor Corporation, Austin, TX, USA; and David Josephson, Josephson Engineering, San Jose, CA, USA
Progress on Microphone Characterization -- SC-04-04 -- David Josephson, Josephson Engineering, San Jose, CA, USA (Invited)
Distortion in Small Transducers -- Juha Backman, Nokia Mobile Phones, Salo, Finland
Session C, 2:00 pm
Low Bit-Rate Coding Technology
Chairman: Marina Bosi, Digital Theater Systems, Westlake Village, CA, USA
MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding: Overview and Applications -- Karlheinz Brandenburg, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen, Erlangen, Germany; and Marina Bosi, Dolby Laboratories, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA (Invited)
Exploiting Both Time and Frequency Structure in a System That Uses an Analysis/Synthesis Filter Bank with High-Frequency Resolution -- Jürgen Herre, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen, Erlangen, Germany; and James D. Johnston, AT&T Labs - Research, Murray Hill, NJ, USA (Invited)
A Bit-Rate Scalable Perceptual Coder for MPEG-4 Audio -- Bernhard Grill, Lehrstuhl für Technische Elektronik, Universität Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany (Invited)
Multi-Layer Bit-Sliced Bit-Rate Scalable Audio Coding -- Sung-Hee Park, Yeon-Bae Kim, Sang Wook Kim, and Yang-Seock Seo, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Suwon, Korea
A New Backward Predictor for MPEG Audio Coding -- Lin Yin, Mikko Suonio, and Mauri Vaananen, Nokia Research Center, Speech and Audio Systems Laboratory, Tampere, Finland
The Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder (EPAC) -- Deepen Sinha, Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Frequency-Domain Dither in Transform Coding -- Michael Truman, Department of Systems Design Engineering, and John Vanderkooy, Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Audio Compression Using Entropy-Coded Dithered Quantization -- Eli Shoval, Tel-Aviv University, and Audio Codes Ltd., Or-Yehuda, Israel; and Meir Feder, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Robust Coding of High-Quality Audio Signals -- Jürgen Koller and Thomas Sporer, Lehrstuhl für Technische Elektronik, Universität Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Session D, 2:00 pm
Loudspeakers
Chairman: Claude Fortier, State of the Art Acoustik Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Magnetic Circuit Design Methodologies for Dual Coil Transducers -- Douglas J. Button, JBL Professional, Northridge, CA, USA
Loudspeaker Parameter Measurements -- A Discussion on Accuracy and Validity -- Erling Sandermann Olsen, Technical University of Denmark, Department of Acoustic Technology, Lyngby, Denmark
Loudspeaker Ports -- John Vanderkooy, University of Waterloo, Department of Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Invited)
Effects of B1-product Nonlinearities on Dynamic Resonance and QT -- Tom Heed, Oxford International, Ltd., Chicago, IL, USA
Air Propagation Nonlinear and Intermodulation Distortion in Big Sound Systems -- Gene Czerwinski, Alexander Voishvillo, Sergei Alexandrov, and Alexander Terekhov, Cerwin Vega Inc., Simi Valley, CA, USA
Reduction of Second-Order Non-Linear Distortion of a Horn Loudspeaker by a Volterra Filter -- Real-Time Implementation -- Taro Katayama and Mitsuhiko Serikawa, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Audio Group, Kadoma-shi, Osaka, Japan
The Distributed-Mode Loudspeaker (DML) as a Broad-Band Acoustic Radiator -- Neil Harris, New Transducers Limited, Huntingdon, UK; and Malcolm Omar Hawksford, University of Essex, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Colchester, Essex, UK
A New Flat-Panel Loudspeaker for Portable Multimedia -- Mitch Tashiro, NEC Authentic Ltd., Kawasaki City, Japan; and Graham Bank and Martin Roberts, New Transducers Limited, Huntingdon, UK
Development of Thin Loudspeakers Suitable for HDTV Receivers with Large PDP Flat Display -- Akira Morita, Masakazu Iwaki, Shin-ichi Chiba, and Eiichi Miyasaka, NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan (Invited)
