Project	Surround sound techniques and reverberation modelling
	The simulation of the acoustics of a room or hall with particular emphasis on its reverberant characteristics is a fundamental tool in the field of creative audio processing.  There are many methods that can be used to generate an artificial reverberant effect although this becomes a more complex problem when accurate surround sound reverberation is required.   Digital Waveguide Mesh Models can be used to model the acoustic properties of enclosed spaces and the output from such a model is the Room Impulse Response (RIR).  Surround sound encoded RIRs can be used to process arbitrary audio signals essentially placing the source and hence the listener within the modelled, virtual surround space.
Staff	Dr Damian Murphy, Prof David M Howard
Funding	University of York Studentship, EPSRC application