Discriminability of concurrent virtual and real sound sources in an augmented audio scenario

Schneiderwind C, Neidhardt A. Discriminability of concurrent virtual and real sound sources in an augmented audio scenario. In: AES Convention 152. Audio Engineering Society; 2022. Paper 10604. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21717

@inproceedings{Schneiderwind2022_21717,
  author = {Schneiderwind, Christian and Neidhardt, Annika},
  title = {{Discriminability of concurrent virtual and real sound sources in an augmented audio scenario}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 152},
  note = {Paper 10604},
  year = {2022},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21717}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Discriminability of concurrent virtual and real sound sources in an augmented audio scenario
AU  - Schneiderwind, Christian
AU  - Neidhardt, Annika
T2  - AES Convention 152
M1  - Paper 10604
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/05/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21717
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - This exploratory study investigates peoples’ ability to discriminate between real and virtual sound sources in a position-dynamic headphone based augmented audio scene. For this purpose, an acoustic scene was created consisting of two loudspeakers at different positions in a small seminar room. Considering the presence of headphones, non-individualized BRIRs measured along a line with a dummy head wearing AKG K1000 headphones were used to allow for head rotation and translation. In a psychoacoustic experiment, participants had to explore the acoustic scene and tell which sound source they believe is real or virtual. The test cases included a dialog scenario, stereo pop-music and one person speaking while the other speaker played mono-music simultaneously. Results show that the participants were on trend able to debunk individual virtual sources. However, for the cases where both sound sources reproduced sound simultaneously, lower distinguishability rates were observed.
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