Perceptual evaluation of binaural rendering and stereo width control in headphone reproduction

Ueno Y, Mizumachi M, Horiuchi T. Perceptual evaluation of binaural rendering and stereo width control in headphone reproduction. In: AES Convention 148. Audio Engineering Society; 2020. Paper 587. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20825

@inproceedings{Ueno2020_20825,
  author = {Ueno, Yui and Mizumachi, Mistunori and Horiuchi, Toshiharu},
  title = {{Perceptual evaluation of binaural rendering and stereo width control in headphone reproduction}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 148},
  note = {Paper 587},
  year = {2020},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20825}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Perceptual evaluation of binaural rendering and stereo width control in headphone reproduction
AU  - Ueno, Yui
AU  - Mizumachi, Mistunori
AU  - Horiuchi, Toshiharu
T2  - AES Convention 148
M1  - Paper 587
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20825
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Two-channel stereophonic sound reproduction is one of the most important issues in audio engineering. Most of stereo music sources, however, cannot naturally reproduce spatial impression through earphones and headphones. In this study, stereo sources are converted by either binaural rendering or stereo width control. The former convolves head-related impulse responses into the original stereo sources, and the latter shrinks the perceptual spatial width by adding the monaural signal. Perceptual differences in between the above methods are investigated on several spatial attributes. It is confirmed that the binaural rendering is suited to reproduce the spatial impression related to the whole sound field and the stereo width control is suitable for naturally characterizing the spatial attributes for individual sound sources.
ER  -