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A Binaural Auditory Model for the Evaluation of Reproduced Stereophonic Sound

Authors: Lorho, Gaetan; Takanen, Marko

AES Convention 124 · Paper 7371 · May 2008

Abstract

Binaural cues describing the differences in phase and power between the signals at the two ears enable our auditory system to localize sound sources and segregate spatially multiple auditory events. Recent publications on binaural auditory modeling have shown how the interaural coherence can be utilized to estimate these cues and therefore model the localization ability of our auditory system. The approach is exploited in this paper to estimate the binaural cues at different frequency bands and identify the direction
of sound sources from signals recorded with a head and torso simulator. We illustrate the application of this binaural auditory model to evaluate sound reproduced by a stereophonic loudspeaker setup in terms of source localization and specific loudness.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 124
AES Convention
124
Paper number
7371
Publication date
May 6, 2008
Session subject
Spatial Audio Perception and Processing
Affiliation
Helsinki University of Technology;Nokia Corporation (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper