Frontal Sound Localization with Headphone Systems Using Characteristics of Each Device

Ono Y, Saji A, Huang J. Frontal Sound Localization with Headphone Systems Using Characteristics of Each Device. In: AES Convention 143. Audio Engineering Society; 2017. Paper 354. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19305

@inproceedings{Ono2017_19305,
  author = {Ono, Yuya and Saji, Akira and Huang, Jie},
  title = {{Frontal Sound Localization with Headphone Systems Using Characteristics of Each Device}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 143},
  note = {Paper 354},
  year = {2017},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19305}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Frontal Sound Localization with Headphone Systems Using Characteristics of Each Device
AU  - Ono, Yuya
AU  - Saji, Akira
AU  - Huang, Jie
T2  - AES Convention 143
M1  - Paper 354
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/10/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19305
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Generally, it is difficult to localize sounds on frontal positions with headphones because of the so called in-the-head localization. In this paper we proposed a method to create sound images on frontal positions by cancelling the frequency characteristics of sounds from headphones and adapting the frequency characteristics of sounds from frontal loudspeaker that are measured with HATS. We held auditory experiments that evaluating the similarity and naturalness between the sounds from frontal loudspeaker and headphones on the participants. As a result, we found the method can decrease the in-the-head localization
ER  -