Humans possess a remarkable ability to extract rich three-dimensional information about sound environments simply by analyzing the acoustic signals they receive at their two ears. Research in spatial hearing has evolved from a theoretical discipline studying the basic mechanisms of hearing to a technical discipline focused on designing and implementing increasingly sophisticated spatial auditory display systems. This book contains over 30 chapters representing the current state-of-the-art in spatial audio research selected from papers presented in Sendai, Japan, at the First International Workshop on the Principles and Applications of Spatial Hearing.

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R&D engineers of audio engineering; acoustics researchers; audiology researchers; R&D engineers of hearing aids; educators in audio, audiology and acoustics; virtual and augmented reality researchers; audio engineering enthusiasts; cognitive scientists; multimedia information processing researchers; multimodal information processing researchers; 3D image displays researchers.