Audio Quality Evaluation in Virtual Reality: Multiple Stimulus Ranking with Behavior Tracking

Rummukainen O, Robotham T, Schlecht SJ, Plinge A, Herre J, Habels EAP. Audio Quality Evaluation in Virtual Reality: Multiple Stimulus Ranking with Behavior Tracking. In: AES Conference: 2018 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality. Audio Engineering Society; 2018. Paper P2-4. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19678

@inproceedings{Rummukainen2018_19678,
  author = {Rummukainen, Olli and Robotham, Thomas and Schlecht, Sebastian J. and Plinge, Axel and Herre, Jürgen and Habels, Emmanuël A. P.},
  title = {{Audio Quality Evaluation in Virtual Reality: Multiple Stimulus Ranking with Behavior Tracking}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 2018 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality},
  note = {Paper P2-4},
  year = {2018},
  month = aug,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19678}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Audio Quality Evaluation in Virtual Reality: Multiple Stimulus Ranking with Behavior Tracking
AU  - Rummukainen, Olli
AU  - Robotham, Thomas
AU  - Schlecht, Sebastian J.
AU  - Plinge, Axel
AU  - Herre, Jürgen
AU  - Habels, Emmanuël A. P.
T2  - AES Conference: 2018 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality
M1  - Paper P2-4
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018/08/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19678
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Virtual reality systems with multimodal stimulation and up to six degrees-of-freedom movement pose novel challenges to audio quality evaluation. This paper adapts classic multiple stimulus test methodology to virtual reality and adds behavioral tracking functionality. The method is based on ranking by elimination while exploring an audiovisual virtual reality. The proposed evaluation method allows immersion in multimodal virtual scenes while enabling comparative evaluation of multiple binaural renderers. A pilot study is conducted to evaluate feasibility of the proposed method and to identify challenges in virtual reality audio quality evaluation. Finally, the results are compared to a non-immersive off-line evaluation method.
ER  -