This book is the first multidisciplinary perspective of the signal processing that underpins most of modern acoustics. It is a compilation of the techniques and applications of signal processing used in many varied areas of acoustics.

The Handbook closes a gap in the literature between signal processing and acoustics as separate areas of research. In each area of acoustics, subtopics are identified which involve specialized signal processing techniques. Emphasis is placed on tables, charts, data, and equations of particular significance. The text includes extensive cross-referencing, particularly for generic signal processing techniques which are used in several applications. A separate and extensive compilation of definitions of terms is also included. The book will be a valuable resource for scientists and engineers in acoustics.

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David Havelock studied Mathematics and Physics as an undergraduate at Carleton University and obtained his M.Sc in Mathematics at the University of Bristish Columbia. After a period of employment in the areas of seismology and then submarine detection, he joined the Division of Physics at the National Research Council and completed his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering at Carleton University. While there, he has worked in Photogrammetric, Computer Imaging, and (since 1989) Acoustics. While in the Acoustics and Signal Processing Group of the Institute for Microstructural Sciences at the NRC, his main areas of research have been microphone arrays and outdoor sound propagation. He is a fellow of the ASA, past Chair and founding member of its Technical Committee on Signal Processing in Acoustics and was Technical Program Chair for the joint ASA, EAA, DEGA meeting in Berlin, 1999. He is married and has two wonderful daughters.

Sonoko Kuwano was born on 19 December 1944 in Japan. She is a Professor of the Laboratory of Environmental Psychology, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University. She is also a Professor of the Department of Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. She graduated from Osaka University with a B.A. degree in Psychology in 1967, and received a Ph.D. in Engineering in 1983 from the University of Tokyo. Her interests are psychological evaluation of environmental noise, cross-cultural study of noise problems, evaluation of sound quality of machinery noise and perception of non-steady state sounds. She was a guest researcher of the Institute of Electroacoustics (Institute of Man-Machine Communication) at the Technical University of Munich in 1985, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1995 and 1997. She is a member of Board of International Commission for Acoustics and a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. She was the President of the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ), the Vice-President of INCE/Japan and the President of Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition. She was a co-editor of Handbook of Ergonomics published in 2003, a member of the editorial board of Dictionary of Acoustics edited by ASJ and the editor of the proceedings of many international congresses such as Inter-noise 94 and the third ASA and ASJ Joint Meeting. She has been a member of many committees on environmental problems in central or local governments in Japan, such as the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Osaka Prefecture, etc. She won a Sato Paper Prize of ASJ in 1983 and 1987.

Michael Vorländer is Professor at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. After university education in physics and doctor degree (Aachen, 1989 with a thesis in room acoustical computer simulation) he worked in various fields of acoustics at the PTB Braunschweig, the National Laboratory for Physics and Technology. First research activities were focused on psychoacoustics and electroacoustics. In 1991 he became head of the PTB laboratory of room and building acoustics. In 1995 he finished the qualification as university lecturer (habilitation) with a thesis on reciprocity calibration of microphones in reverberation chambers. In 1996 he accepted an offer from RWTH Aachen University for a chair and Director of the Institute of Technical Acoustics. Michael Vorländer is member of the German Acoustical Society, DEGA, of the German Physical Society, DPG, and fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, ASA. He is actively involved in the European Acoustics Association, EAA, as President of the term 2004 â 2007 and Vice-President in the term 2007-2010. Also he served in several positions as conference chairs such as the General Co-chair of Acoustics08, the 2 nd joint meeting of ASA and EAA in Paris. His main interests are virtual acoustics (auralization), architectural acoustics, binaural technology and acoustic measurements. Michael Vorländer is marriedand has three sons.

Inhalt
Acoustic Signals and Systems.- Signals and Systems.- Acoustic Data Acquisition.- Spectral Analysis and Correlation.- The FFT and Tone Identification.- Measuring Transfer-Functions and Impulse Responses.- Digital Sequences.- Filters.- Adaptive Processing.- Beamforming and Wavenumber Processing.- Auditory System and Hearing.- Anatomy, Physiology and Function of the Auditory System.- Physiological Measures of Auditory Function.- Auditory Processing Models.- Speech Intelligibility.- Signal Processing in Hearing Aids.- Psychoacoustics.- Methods for Psychoacoustics in Relation to Long-Term Sounds.- Masking and Critical Bands.- Aspects of Modeling Pitch Perception.- Calculation of Loudness for Normal and Hearing-Impaired Listeners.- Psychoacoustical Roughness.- Musical Acoustics.- Automatic Music Transcription.- Music Structure Analysis from Acoustic Signals.- Computer Music Synthesis and Composition.- Singing Voice Analysis, Synthesis, and Modeling.- Instrument Modeling and Synthesis.- Digital Waveguide Architectures for Virtual Musical Instruments.- Modeling of Musical Instruments.- Speech.- Display and Analysis of~Speech.- Estimation of Speech Intelligibility and Quality.- Gaussian Models in Automatic Speech Recognition.- Speech Synthesis.- Speech Coders.- Audio Engineering.- Transducer Models.- Loudspeaker Design and Performance Evaluation.- PA Systems for Indoor and Outdoor.- Beamforming for Speech and Audio Signals.- Digital Audio Recording Formats and Editing Principles.- Audiovisual Interaction.- Multichannel Sound Reproduction.- Virtual Acoustics.- Audio Restoration.- Audio Effects Generation.- Perceptually Based Audio Coding.- Telecommunications.- Speech Communication and Telephone Networks.- Methods of Determining the Communicational Quality of Speech Transmission Systems.- Efficient Speech Coding and Transmission Over Noisy Channels.- Echo Cancellation.- Noise Reduction and Interference Cancellation.- Terminals and Their Influence on Communication Quality.- Networks and Their Influence on Communication Quality.- Interaction of Terminals, Networks and Network Configurations.- Noise.- Sound Levels of Noise Sources.- Outdoor Measurements.- Measurements of Physical Characteristics Using Sound at Audible or Lower Frequencies.- Community Response to Noise.- Active Noise Control.- Forward Control in Single-Channel Systems.- Forward Control in Multichannel Systems.- Feedback Control Systems.- Structural Acoustics and Vibration.- Intensity Techniques.- Nearfield Acoustical Holography.- Actuator Design and Deployment.- Materials Testing.- Bioresponse to Vibration.- Tactile Responses to Vibration.- Uses and Applications of Somatosensation.- Sensory Substitution.- Transducers for Acoustic Measurement.- Condenser Microphones.- Dynamic Pressure Microphones.- Dynamic Pressure Difference Microphones.- The Microflown Particle Velocity Sensor.- Microphone Calibration.- Piezoceramic Accelerometer.- Laser Doppler Velocimeter.- Capacitive Sensors.- Engineering Acoustics.- Energy Saving Transducers and Thermoacoustics.- Sinusoidal Representation of Acoustic Signals.- Room Tran…