PAPERS SESSIONS

Session I
Monday, May 10, 09:00 - 13:00 h
MULTICHANNEL AUDIO
Chairman: David Griesinger, Lexicon, Waltham, MA, USA

I1 High Quality Multichannel Audio: Trends and Challenges
Marina Bosi, Digital Theater Systems, (DTS), Inc., Los Angeles, USA

I2 Multichannel Level Alignment, Part III: The Influence of Loudspeaker � Directivity and Reproduction Bandwidth
S�ren Bech, Bang & Olufsen A/S, Struer, Denmark and Nick Zacharov, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland

I3 Inter Channel Cross-Correlation using Wavelet Transforms
Mohamed Aswat, Mark Sandler, Kings College, London, England

I4 Audibility of All-pass Phase in Binaural Synthesis
Pauli Minnaar, Flemming Christensen, Henrik M�ller and S�ren Krarup Olesen, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

I5 An Investigation of Microphone Techniques for Ambient Sound in Surround Sound Systems
Russell Mason and Francis Rumsey, University of Surrey, Guildford, England

I6 The SP1 - Acoustic Simulation for Post Production
Glenn Dickins, Patrick Flanagan, Leonard Layton, Lake DSP, Sydney, NSW, Australia

I7 A Multichannel Audio Codec System for Multichannel Audio Authoring
Dae-young Jang, Kyeong Ok Kang, Jinsuk Kwak, Sung Han Kim, Jin-Woo Hong, ETRI, Taejon, Korea and Stefan Geyersberger, Wolfgang Fiesel, Harald Gernhardt, Doris Huhn, Frauenhofer IIS, Erlangen, Germany

I8 New Radio Broadcasting Studio with Disc Based Mixing Facility for Producing Multi-Channel Audio Dramas
Mick M. Sawaguchi, Akira Fukada, Koru Itobayashi and Mikihiko Okamoto, NHK Broadcasting Center, Tokyo, Japan