The aim of this article is to compare two multi-speaker spatialization techniques Vector Base Panning (VBP) and Ambisonics on a particular loudspeaker layout. Theory is presented for configurations in the horizontal plane. A way to deal with the elevation effect for such layouts is proposed. A new "local" panning method is introduced. VBP and Ambisonics are compared on a 5.1 configuration by me...

An immersive audio environment for desktop applications is presented. It allows the spatialisation of 3D sound fields around an almost free mobile listener. The sound field is reproduced by a several loudspeakers positioned along the desktop edges without using head tracking. The loudspeaker signals are derived by using the principle of the wave field synthesis approach combined with different ...

Marcus Panning, Petra Emmerich, Stephan Ölschläger, Sergiusz Bojenko, Lamine Koivogui, Arthur Marx, Peter Clement Lugala, Stephan Günther, Daniel G. Bausch, and Christian Drosten Author affi liations: Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany (M. Panning, P. Emmerich, S. Ölschläger, S. Günther, C. Drosten); United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone (S...

Features • DigitalClarityTM CMOS Imaging Technology • High frame rate • Superior low-light performance • Low dark current • Simple two-wire serial interface • Auto black level calibration • Support for long integration times • 2 x 2 binning • Anti-aliasing function • Anti-eclipse function • Operating modes: snapshot and flash control, high frame rate preview, electronic panning • Programmable c...

Muscle precursor cells may act not only as a means of inserting normal genes into diseased muscle fibres, in order to correct or alleviate a genetically inherited myopathy, but recent demonstrations have shown they may prove an invaluable tool for the expression of, and systemic dissemination of, non-muscle gene products. If muscle precursor cells are proved to act as such widespread vectors in...