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Study of Sound Source Shape and Wideness in Virtual and Real Auditory Displays

Authors: Potard, Guillaume; Spille, Jens

AES Convention 114 · Paper 5766 · March 2003

Abstract

MPEG-4 AudioBIFS currently can describe and present point sound sources (e.g. a flying insect or a distant sound source) but it can not describe sound sources that have a certain spatial dimension like a choir, an orchestra, a seafront or rain. Spatial wideness or tonal volume is however a very important perceptual aspect of real sound sources. We proposed in July 2002 to enhance the spatial illusion of virtual sound scenes by adding sound source wideness and shape to AudioBIFS. A core experiment then followed to study the usefulness of this proposal. The details of the experiments and conclusions are described in this document.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 114
AES Convention
114
Paper number
5766
Publication date
March 6, 2003
Session subject
Spatial Perception and Processing
Affiliation
University of Wollongong, New South Wales Australia ; Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH, Hannover, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper