Augmented Audio with Behind-the-Head Listening Device

Puomio O, González Diaz R, Lokki T. Augmented Audio with Behind-the-Head Listening Device. In: AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio. Audio Engineering Society; 2019. Paper 71. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20420

@inproceedings{Puomio2019_20420,
  author = {Puomio, Otto and González Diaz, Raimundo and Lokki, Tapio},
  title = {{Augmented Audio with Behind-the-Head Listening Device}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio},
  note = {Paper 71},
  year = {2019},
  month = mar,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20420}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Augmented Audio with Behind-the-Head Listening Device
AU  - Puomio, Otto
AU  - González Diaz, Raimundo
AU  - Lokki, Tapio
T2  - AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio
M1  - Paper 71
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019/03/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20420
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - This paper studies a novel personal listening device, HUMU Augmented Audio Cushion™, in the context of spatial audio. The case study explored ways to reproduce binaural audio with this device, which in normal use is located behind the listener. Several techniques were applied to binaural signals to render spatial sound, but none of them worked perfectly and bring the sound image in front of the listener. The device, which also provides tactile information for a user, is really close to the listener’s head, thus traditional far-field techniques failed to perform cross-talk cancellation. However, two listening tests revealed that the implemented techniques worked to some extent, however, many open research questions were left for future research.
ER  -