Evaluation of Binaural Renderers: A Methodology

Reardon G, Roginska A, Flanagan P, Calle JS, Genovese A, Zalles G, Olko M, Jerez C. Evaluation of Binaural Renderers: A Methodology. In: AES Convention 143. Audio Engineering Society; 2017. Paper 359. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19310

@inproceedings{Reardon2017_19310,
  author = {Reardon, Gregory and Roginska, Agnieszka and Flanagan, Patrick and Calle, Juan Simon and Genovese, Andrea and Zalles, Gabriel and Olko, Marta and Jerez, Christal},
  title = {{Evaluation of Binaural Renderers: A Methodology}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 143},
  note = {Paper 359},
  year = {2017},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19310}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Evaluation of Binaural Renderers: A Methodology
AU  - Reardon, Gregory
AU  - Roginska, Agnieszka
AU  - Flanagan, Patrick
AU  - Calle, Juan Simon
AU  - Genovese, Andrea
AU  - Zalles, Gabriel
AU  - Olko, Marta
AU  - Jerez, Christal
T2  - AES Convention 143
M1  - Paper 359
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/10/06
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Recent developments in immersive audio technology have motivated a proliferation of binaural renderers used for creating spatial audio content. Binaural renderers leverage psychoacoustic features of human hearing to reproduce a 3D sound image over headphones. In this paper a methodology for the comparative evaluation of different binaural renderers is presented. The methodological approach is threefold. A subjective evaluation of 1) quantitative characteristics (such as front/back and up/down discrimination, localization) ; 2) qualitative characteristics (such as timbre, naturalness); and 3) overall preference. The main objective of the methodology is to help to elucidate the most meaningful factors for the performance of binaural renderers and to provide indications on possible improvements in the rendering process.
ER  -