Acoustical Society of America; Series Preface for Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Part I: Scientific Chapters; Chapter 1: Spatial Audio and Room Acoustics; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Room Acoustics; 1.3 Hands-Free Telephony; 1.4 Spatial Audio and Perception; 1.5 Summary; References; Chapter 2: The Early History of Ray Tracing in Acoustics; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 First Studies by Allred and Newhouse in 1958: Mean Free Path Calculations; 2.3 Schroeder at ICA in 1962: The Path Towards Auralization

2.4 Developments in Oslo 1965-1967: Diffuseness of Reverberation Rooms with Hanging Reflectors2.5 Developments in Trondheim, Leading up to the Paper in 1968; 2.6 Schroeder at the ASA Meeting in 1967: Computing Decays in Generally Shaped Convex Rooms; 2.7 Later Developments of Ray Tracing in Room Acoustics; 2.8 Ray Tracing in Other Fields; 2.9 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 3: Advanced Room-Acoustics Decay Analysis; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Schroeder Decay and Model; 3.3 Linear and Nonlinear Regression; 3.4 Bayesian Decay Analysis; 3.4.1 Two Levels of Bayesian Inference

3.4.1.1 Model Selection: The Second Level of Inference3.4.1.2 Parameter Estimation: The First Level of Inference; 3.5 Bayesian Information Criterion; 3.6 Sampling Methods; 3.6.1 Basic Formulation; 3.6.2 Numerical Implementation; 3.6.3 Posterior Samples for Parameter Estimation; 3.7 Discussion; 3.8 Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: Estimating the Crossover Time Within Room Impulse Responses; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 A Brief Review of Statistical Room Acoustics; 4.3 Estimating the Crossover Time; 4.3.1 Introduction; 4.3.2 Matching Pursuit; 4.3.3 eXtensible Fourier Transform

4.3.4 Comparing MP and XFT4.4 Discussion Around the Crossover Time and the Mixing Time; 4.4.1 Ergodicity and Mixing; 4.4.2 Why the Crossover Time Cannot be Called the Mixing Time; References; Chapter 5: Are Impulse Responses Gaussian Noises?; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Results from Previous Research; 5.3 Generalizing Schroeder ́s Model to Time Domain; 5.4 Raw Analysis of Impulse Responses; 5.5 Compensating for Decay; 5.6 Detailed Analysis; 5.6.1 Impulse Response; 5.6.2 Transfer Function; 5.7 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Recent Applications of Number-Theoretic Sequences in Audio and Acoustics

6.1 Introduction6.2 Properties of Maximum-Length Related Sequences; 6.3 Acoustical Measurements Using Simultaneous Sound Sources; 6.4 Artificial Reverberations Using Reciprocal MLS Pairs and Related Sequences; 6.5 Decorrelation of Audio Signals Using Reciprocal MLS Pairs [23]; 6.6 Diffuser Sequences; 6.7 Diffusers; References; Chapter 7: Where Mathematics and Hearing Science Meet: Low Peak Factor Signals and Their Role in Hearing Research; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Schroeder ́s Major Contributions to Hearing Research; 7.3 Harmonic Complex Tone Stimuli and the Role of Phase Spectra