Review of automotive audio technologies: immersive audio case study

Advances in autonomous cars are driving researches in different areas, including infotainment, electric cars acoustics and multimedia user experience. Lines between automotive and consumer multimedia technologies are not that strict anymore, and that opens lot of questions regarding platforms, interfaces, safety, technologies and technologies’ updates which are much faster in consumer world. In this paper we review current automotive audio technologies and researches, and evaluate object based audio application on automotive platform. Objects based audio technologies are state of the art in home audio and theatres and next step in automotive multimedia.