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31st International AES Conference - New Directions
in High Resolution Audio
June 25-27, 2007
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Submissions site now open! Please let the conference
organizers know of your intent to contribute or attend. Further detail
available at http://www.aes.org/events/31/
The 31st International Audio Engineering Society
Conference, entitled New Directions in High Resolution Audio, will be held at
Queen Mary,
This Conference is concerned with the promotion and
delivery of high resolution audio, by maintaining quality throughout the
recording and playback chain with current and future technologies. It reflects
the tremendous recent growth of high resolution audio techniques and products
intended for use throughout the audio recording and playback chain. However,
issues remain on how to avoid bottlenecks where quality is compromised, and how
to maintain and encourage high resolution audio in an everchanging marketplace.
These concerns are of interest to the audio engineering, recording and
production industries, as well as to education and academia.
We aim to provide a place for the exchange of news,
issues and results, by bringing together researchers , developers, educators,
students and professional users, working in fields that contribute to high
resolution audio, to present original theoretical or practical work. It also serves
as a discussion forum, provides introductory and in-depth information in
specific domains, and showcases current products.
The 31st AES Conference solicits contributions to
the field of high resolution audio, including, but not limited to, the following
domains and topics:
High resolution recording issues
* Bandwidth, sampling rate, dynamic resolution and
spatial representation.
* Analog and digital recording equipment
Processing, manipulation and preparation of high
resolution signals
* High quality analog design
* A/D and D/A conversion
* Format and sample rate interconversions
* High-resolution signal processing, 1 to n bit
paradigms
* Spatial audio, virtual and acoustic spaces,
virtual image manipulation
Storage of high resolution audio
* Current and future storage technology for
high-density audio data
* Overview of high resolution consumer formats
* Copy protection
* Access speed, data reliability, bit packing and
compression
* Professional archival formats and future-proofing
Electronic delivery of high resolution audio
* Network (wired and wireless) systems/delivery of
high quality audio content
* Current and future formats for streaming and file
delivery of high resolution audio
* Bandwidth
* Digital radio and broadcast applications including
multichannel audio
Maintaining quality at playback
* Evolving technology for multiformat players
* PC-based playback: configuration and interfacing
* Converter technologies
* Jitter/interface/power supplies and other related
forms of noise
* Digital amplification
e.g., Class-D amplifiers
Perception
* Perceptual modeling.
* Objective evaluation and subjective performance of
high-resolution audio
* Objective measurement and resolution issues
* Subjective procedures and evaluation psychology
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SUBMISSIONS
Submissions, which will be peer-reviewed, may be in
the following categories:
- paper (to be presented in the main sessions)
- poster or demonstration (to be presented in the
poster sessions)
- original composition demonstrating features of
high resolution audio (to be showcased throughout the conference)
- tutorial, panel or workshop proposals (see
conference web site for details)
Recording companies. publishers, software and
hardware developers, etc., are invited to contact the programme committee
regarding exhibition space.
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DEADLINES
Deadline for submissions of tutorials, panels and
workshops: Feb. 2nd 2007.
Deadline for submissions of papers and
posters/demos: Feb. 2nd 2007.
Deadline for exhibitor space: June 1st 2007.
Please see the conference website for more
information; http://www.aes.org/events/31/