Mission Statement
The committee works to ensure that the members of the AES are kept up to date on the latest advances and practices in psychoacoustics, the evaluation of sound field recording, coding and reproduction systems, and psychometrics. This includes all aspects of listening tests and modelling of perception in computers.
Many quality assessment tests in the past focused on comparison with an explicitly given reference. In AR and VR applications in general there is no reference and new methods have to be found.
Due to the fact that the products created by audio engineers are target to human receivers and not to measurement systems, listening tests are the most important tools.
