An Investigation of Early Reflection’s Effect on Front-Back Localization in Spatial Audio

Reed DK, Maher RC. An Investigation of Early Reflection’s Effect on Front-Back Localization in Spatial Audio. In: AES Convention 127. Audio Engineering Society; 2009. Paper 7884. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15079

@inproceedings{Reed2009_15079,
  author = {Reed, Darrin K. and Maher, Robert C.},
  title = {{An Investigation of Early Reflection’s Effect on Front-Back Localization in Spatial Audio}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 127},
  note = {Paper 7884},
  year = {2009},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15079}
}

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AB  - In a natural sonic environment a listener is accustomed to hearing reflections and reverberation. It is conceived that early reflections could reduce front-back confusion in synthetic 3-D audio. This paper describes an experiment to determine whether or not simulated reflections can reduce front-back confusion for audio presented with non-individualized HRTFs via headphones. Although the simple addition of a single-order reflection is not shown to eliminate all front-back confusions, some cases of lateral reflections from a side boundary can be shown to both assist and inhibit localization ability depending on the relationship of the source, observer and reflective boundary.
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