An Introduction to Virtual Sound Barriers
暫譯: 虛擬聲音屏障入門

虛擬聲音屏障是一種主動噪音控制系統，利用揚聲器和麥克風的陣列來創造一個有用的安靜區域，並可用於減少噪音源的聲音傳播、輻射或傳輸，或在嘈雜環境中降低人周圍的噪音水平。本書首先介紹虛擬聲音屏障的歷史、原理和設計方法，然後描述該系統的最新研究進展。討論了兩種虛擬聲音屏障系統，即平面虛擬聲音屏障系統和三維虛擬聲音屏障系統，包括應用、限制和未來方向的討論。

Xiaojun Qiu is a professor in Audio, Acoustics and Vibration at Center for Audio, Acoustics and Vibration in Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees from Peking University in 1989 and 1992, and his PhD from Nanjing University in 1995, respectively, all majoring in Acoustics. He worked in the University of Adelaide as a Research Fellow in the field of active noise control from 1997 to 2002, worked in the Institute of Acoustics of Nanjing University as a professor on Acoustics and Signal processing from 2002 to 2013, and worked at RMIT University as a Professor of Design on Audio Engineering from 2013 to 2016. He joined University of Technology Sydney in 2016. His main research areas include noise and vibration control, room acoustics, electro-acoustics and audio signal processing, particularly applications of active control technologies. He is a Fellow of Audio Engineering Society, and serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration and an Associate Technical Editor for the Journal of Audio Engineering Society. He has published 3 books, 5 book chapters and more than 400 technique papers, and has been the principal investigator for numerous projects. He has also been granted more than 50 patents on audio acoustics and audio signal processing.

邱小軍是悉尼科技大學工程與資訊技術學院音頻、聲學與振動中心的音頻、聲學與振動教授。他於1989年和1992年分別在北京大學獲得學士和碩士學位，並於1995年在南京大學獲得聲學專業的博士學位。他於1997年至2002年在阿德萊德大學擔任主動噪音控制領域的研究員，2002年至2013年在南京大學聲學研究所擔任聲學與信號處理教授，2013年至2016年在RMIT大學擔任音頻工程設計教授。2016年，他加入悉尼科技大學。他的主要研究領域包括噪音與振動控制、房間聲學、電子聲學和音頻信號處理，特別是主動控制技術的應用。他是音頻工程學會的會士，並擔任《國際聲學與振動期刊》的副編輯和《音頻工程學會期刊》的副技術編輯。他已出版3本書籍、5章書籍和400多篇技術論文，並擔任多個項目的主要研究者。他還獲得了50多項有關音頻聲學和音頻信號處理的專利。