Measuring and understanding spatial hearing is a fundamental step to create effective virtual auditory displays (VADs). The evaluation of such auralization systems often requires psychoacoustic experiments. This process can be time consuming and error prone, resulting in a bottleneck for the evaluation complexity. In this work we evaluated a probabilistic auditory model for sound localization intended as a tool to assess VAD’s abilities to provide static sound-localization cues to listeners. The outcome of the model, compared with actual results of psychoacoustic experiments, shows the advantages and limitations of this systematic evaluation.

Authors: Barumerli, Roberto; Majdak, Piotr; Reijniers, Jonas; Baumgartner, Robert; Geronazzo, Michele; Avanzini, Federico
Affiliations: Information Engineering Department, University of Padova; Austrian Academy of Sciences Acoustics Research Institute; University of Antwerp; Austrian Academy of Sciences Acoustics Research Institute; Dept. of Architecture, Design, and Media Technology, Aalborg University; University of Milan(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 148 (May 2020) Paper Number: 10360
Publication Date: May 28, 2020
Subject: Spatial Audio

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