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Convention Paper

Scalable Binaural Synthesis on Mobile Devices

Authors: Sander, Christian; Wefers, Frank; Leckschat, Dieter

AES Convention 133 · Paper 8783 · October 2012

Abstract

The binaural reproduction of sound sources through headphones in mobile applications is becoming a promising opportunity to create an immersive three-dimensional listening experience without the need for extensive equipment. Many ideas for outstanding applications in teleconferencing, multichannel rendering for headphones, gaming, or auditory interfaces implementing binaural audio have been proposed. However, the diversity of applications calls for scalability of quality and performance costs so as to use and share hardware resources economically. For this approach, scalable real-time binaural synthesis on mobile platforms was developed and implemented in a test application in order to evaluate what current mobile devices are capable of in terms of binaural technology, both qualitatively and quantitatively. In addition, the audio part of three application scenarios was simulated.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 133
AES Convention
133
Paper number
8783
Publication date
October 6, 2012
Session subject
Spatial Audio Over Headphones
Affiliation
University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper