Perceptual Differences for Modifications of the Elevation of Early Room Reflections

Müller L, Ahrens J. Perceptual Differences for Modifications of the Elevation of Early Room Reflections. In: AES Conference: AES 2022 International Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality Conference. Audio Engineering Society; 2022. Paper 3. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21833

@inproceedings{Muller2022_21833,
  author = {Müller, Leon and Ahrens, Jens},
  title = {{Perceptual Differences for Modifications of the Elevation of Early Room Reflections}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: AES 2022 International Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality Conference},
  note = {Paper 3},
  year = {2022},
  month = aug,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21833}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Perceptual Differences for Modifications of the Elevation of Early Room Reflections
AU  - Müller, Leon
AU  - Ahrens, Jens
T2  - AES Conference: AES 2022 International Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality Conference
M1  - Paper 3
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/08/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21833
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Acoustic room responses usually comprise components that propagate in non-horizontal directions. Oftentimes, audio capture and reproduction systems are not capable of maintaining such elevation information reliably hence it is important to understand their perceptual significance when auralizing rooms. This work investigates the ability of the human hearing system to distinguish between early reflections with different elevation angles by performing loudspeaker- and headphone-based listening experiments using manipulated spatial room impulse responses. The results show that changing the elevation of a strong early reflection can lead to clearly perceivable differences and factors that influence the detectability are identified. Projecting all elevated reflections of a spatial room impulse response with no very prominent ceiling reflection to the horizontal plane showed no perceivable differences.
ER  -