Course Visual and Auditive Perception

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Responsible: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dietmar Kunz

Course

Meets requirements of following modules(MID)

• in active programs
  • Ba MT2012 AVW

Course Organization

Version created 2012-05-02 VID 1 valid from WS 2012/13 valid to

Course identifiers Long name Visual and Auditive Perception CID F07_AVW CEID (exam identifier)

Contact hours per week (SWS) Lecture 3 Exercise (unsplit) Exercise (split) Lab Project Seminar Tutorial(voluntary)

Total contact hours Lecture 45 Exercise (unsplit) Exercise (split) Lab Project Seminar Tutorial (voluntary)

Max. capacity Exercise (unsplit) Exercise (split) 40 Lab 18 Project 18 Seminar 40

Total effort (hours): 90

Instruction language

• German

Study Level

• Undergraduate

Prerequisites

• none

Textbooks, Recommended Reading

• Christoph von Campenhausen: „Die Sinne des Menschen“
• David H. Hubel: „Auge und Gehirn – Neurophysiologie des Sehens“
• Zwicker, E., Feldtkeller, R. (1967). „Das Ohr als Nachrichtenempfänger,“ S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart.
• Blauert, J. (1999), „Spatial Hearing,” MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
• Blauert, J., Xiang, N. (2008).“Acoustic for Engineers – Troy Lectures,“ Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.
• Weinzierl, Stefan (2008). „Handbuch der Audiotechnik,“ Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Instructors

• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dietmar Kunz
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Pörschmann

Supporting Scientific Staff

• tba

Transcipt Entry

Visual and Auditive Perception

Assessment

Type
fAP	answer written questions (5 min) during each lecture

Total effort [hours]
fAP	3

Frequency: 1/year

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Course components

Lecture/Exercise

Objectives

Contents

• visual perception
  • structure of the visual system
  • perception of brightness
  • perception of contrast
  • spatial resolution
  • temporal resolution
  • colour perception
  • perception of spatial depth
• auditory perception
  • human auditory system
  • loudness perception
  • pitch perception
  • spatial hearing
    • mechanisms of localisation
    • distance perception
    • cocktail-party effect
    • precedence effect / sum localisation
  • spectral and temporal masking
• audiovisual interaction
  • audivisual precedence effect
  • Mc Gurk effect

Operational Competences

• specify requirements for audiovisual media systems
• assess performance of audiovisual systems with respect to human perception

Additional Component Assessment

Type
fAP	answer written questions (5 min) during each lecture

Contribution to course grade
fAP	100 %

Frequency: 1/Jahr