Perceptual Evaluation of Variable-Orientation Binaural Room Impulse Response Rendering

Zaunschirm M, Zotter F, Frank M. Perceptual Evaluation of Variable-Orientation Binaural Room Impulse Response Rendering. In: AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio. Audio Engineering Society; 2019. Paper 31. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20395

@inproceedings{Zaunschirm2019_20395,
  author = {Zaunschirm, Markus and Zotter, Franz and Frank, Matthias},
  title = {{Perceptual Evaluation of Variable-Orientation Binaural Room Impulse Response Rendering}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio},
  note = {Paper 31},
  year = {2019},
  month = mar,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20395}
}

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TI  - Perceptual Evaluation of Variable-Orientation Binaural Room Impulse Response Rendering
AU  - Zaunschirm, Markus
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T2  - AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio
M1  - Paper 31
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019/03/06
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AB  - In the current effort to improve sound for virtual auditory environments, realism and audio quality in head-tracked binaural rendering is again becoming important. While rendering based on static dummy-head measurements achieve high audio quality and externalization, the realism lacks interactivity with changes of the head orientation. Motion-tracked binaural (MTB) has been presented as a head-tracked rendering algorithm for recordings made with circular arrays on rigid spheres. In this contribution, we investigate the algorithm proposed for MTB rendering and adopt it for variable-orientation rendering using binaural room impulse responses (BRIR) measured for multiple, discrete orientations of an artificial-head. The experiment in particular investigates the perceptual implications of the angular resolution of the multi-orientation BRIR sets and the time/frequency-resolution of the algorithm.
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