Evaluation of Binaural Renderers: Externalization

Reardon G, Zalles G, Genovese A, Flanagan P, Roginska A. Evaluation of Binaural Renderers: Externalization. In: AES Convention 144. Audio Engineering Society; 2018. Paper 9989. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19506

@inproceedings{Reardon2018_19506,
  author = {Reardon, Gregory and Zalles, Gabriel and Genovese, Andrea and Flanagan, Patrick and Roginska, Agnieszka},
  title = {{Evaluation of Binaural Renderers: Externalization}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 144},
  note = {Paper 9989},
  year = {2018},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19506}
}

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TI  - Evaluation of Binaural Renderers: Externalization
AU  - Reardon, Gregory
AU  - Zalles, Gabriel
AU  - Genovese, Andrea
AU  - Flanagan, Patrick
AU  - Roginska, Agnieszka
T2  - AES Convention 144
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DA  - 2018/05/06
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
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AB  - Binaural renderers can be used to reproduce dynamic spatial audio over headphones and deliver immersive audio content. Six commercially available binaural renderers with different rendering methodologies were evaluated in a multi-phase subjective study. This paper presents and discusses the testing methodology, evaluation criteria, and main findings of the externalization, front/back discrimination and up/down discrimination tasks that are part of the first phase. Statistical analysis over a large number of subjects revealed that the choice of renderer has a significant effect on all three dependent measures. Further, ratings of perceived externalization for the renderers were found to be content-specific, while renderer reversal rates were much more robust to different stimuli.
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