Study on Differences between Individualized and Non-Individualized Hear-Through Equalization for Natural Augmented Listening

Gupta R, Ranjan R, He J, Gan WS. Study on Differences between Individualized and Non-Individualized Hear-Through Equalization for Natural Augmented Listening. In: AES Conference: 2019 AES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEADPHONE TECHNOLOGY. Audio Engineering Society; 2019. Paper 12. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20520

@inproceedings{Gupta2019_20520,
  author = {Gupta, Rishabh and Ranjan, Risabh and He, Jianjun and Gan, Woon Seng},
  title = {{Study on Differences between Individualized and Non-Individualized Hear-Through Equalization for Natural Augmented Listening}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 2019 AES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEADPHONE TECHNOLOGY},
  note = {Paper 12},
  year = {2019},
  month = aug,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20520}
}

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TI  - Study on Differences between Individualized and Non-Individualized Hear-Through Equalization for Natural Augmented Listening
AU  - Gupta, Rishabh
AU  - Ranjan, Risabh
AU  - He, Jianjun
AU  - Gan, Woon Seng
T2  - AES Conference: 2019 AES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEADPHONE TECHNOLOGY
M1  - Paper 12
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019/08/06
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Hear-through (HT) equalization (EQ) is imperative to achieve acoustical transparency for Augmented Reality headphones. Our previous study has shown that closed back headphones can be used with directional hear-through filters derived using adaptive algorithms to emulate reference case of open ear listening. The objective results and perceptual studies showed close match of ideal equalized signal with this reference signal. However, previous study only evaluated the performance of HT filters based on dummy head measurements, where it was assumed that individualized measurements are required for ideal hear-through. The effect of non-individualized HT filters was not clear and remained to be investigated. The aim of this study is to evaluate the differences in using individualized and non-individualized HT filters. It is hypothesized that a major difference exists because of the individual pinnae cues. The objective and subjective results suggest that there are perceptually distinguishable differences in timbre and high errors in localization for non-individualized HT EQ as compared to individualized HT EQ.
ER  -