This paper presents a new 3D sound toolkit called EVE-SoundTM that consists of pre-processing tool for environment simplification preserving sound effect and 3D sound API for real-time rendering. It is designed so that it can allow users to interact w...
This paper presents a new 3D sound toolkit called EVE-SoundTM that consists of pre-processing tool for environment simplification preserving sound effect and 3D sound API for real-time rendering. It is designed so that it can allow users to interact with complex 3D virtual environments by audio-visual modalities. EVE-SoundTM toolkit would serve two different types of users: high-level programmers who need an easy-to-use sound API for developing realistic 3D audio-visually rendered applications, and the researchers in 3D sound field who need to experiment with or develop new algorithms while not wanting to re-write all the required code from scratch. An interactive virtual environment application is created with the sound engine constructed using EVE-SoundTM toolkit, and it shows the real-time audio-visual rendering performance and the applicability of proposed EVE-SoundTM for building interactive applications with complex 3D environments.