@inproceedings{12b5c15ebb8c41109dd5014f51af1079,
title = "Sound localization and multi-modal steering for autonomous virtual agents",
abstract = "With the increasing realism of interactive applications, there is a growing need for harnessing additional sensory modalities such as hearing. While the synthesis and propagation of sounds in virtual environments has been explored, there has been little work that addresses sound localization and its integration into behaviors for autonomous virtual agents. This paper develops a framework that enables autonomous virtual agents to localize sounds in dynamic virtual environments, subject to distortion effects due to attenuation, reflection and diffraction from obstacles, as well as interference between multiple audio signals. We additionally integrate hearing into standard predictive collision avoidance techniques and couple it with vision to allow agents to react to what they see and hear, while navigating in virtual environments.",
keywords = "Acoustics, Artificial life, Localization, Steering, Virtual agents",
author = "Yu Wang and Mubbasir Kapadia and Pengfei Huang and Ladislav Kavan and Badler, {Norman I.}",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1145/2556700.2556718",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450327176",
series = "Proceedings of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "23--30",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th Meeting of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, I3D 2014",
note = "18th ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, I3D 2014 ; Conference date: 14-03-2014 Through 16-03-2014",
}