Augmented Reality Headphone Environment Rendering

Jot JM, Lee KS. Augmented Reality Headphone Environment Rendering. In: AES Conference: 2016 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality. Audio Engineering Society; 2016. Paper 8-2. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18506

@inproceedings{Jot2016_18506,
  author = {Jot, Jean-Marc and Lee, Keun Sup},
  title = {{Augmented Reality Headphone Environment Rendering}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 2016 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality},
  note = {Paper 8-2},
  year = {2016},
  month = sep,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18506}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Augmented Reality Headphone Environment Rendering
AU  - Jot, Jean-Marc
AU  - Lee, Keun Sup
T2  - AES Conference: 2016 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality
M1  - Paper 8-2
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016/09/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18506
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - In headphone-based augmented reality audio applications, computer-generated audio-visual objects are rendered over headphones or ear buds and blended into a natural audio environment. This requires binaural artificial reverberation processing to match local environment acoustics, so that synthetic audio objects are not distinguishable from sounds occurring naturally or reproduced over loudspeakers. Solutions involving the measurement or calculation of binaural room impulse responses in a consumer environment are limited by practical obstacles and complexity. We propose an approach exploiting a statistical reverberation model, enabling practical acoustical environment characterization and computationally efficient reflection and reverberation rendering for multiple virtual sound sources. The method applies equally to headphone-based “audio-augmented reality”–enabling natural-sounding, externalized virtual 3-D audio reproduction of music, movie or game soundtracks.
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