Degradation in reproduction accuracy due to sound scattered by listener's head in local sound field synthesis

Tsunokuni I, Ikeda Y. Degradation in reproduction accuracy due to sound scattered by listener's head in local sound field synthesis. In: AES Convention 152. Audio Engineering Society; 2022. Paper 10610. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21723

@inproceedings{Tsunokuni2022_21723,
  author = {Tsunokuni, Izumi and Ikeda, Yusuke},
  title = {{Degradation in reproduction accuracy due to sound scattered by listener's head in local sound field synthesis}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 152},
  note = {Paper 10610},
  year = {2022},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21723}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Degradation in reproduction accuracy due to sound scattered by listener's head in local sound field synthesis
AU  - Tsunokuni, Izumi
AU  - Ikeda, Yusuke
T2  - AES Convention 152
M1  - Paper 10610
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/05/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21723
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - The purpose of this study is to investigate the phenomenon of degradation in the accuracy of local sound field synthesis (LSFS) due to the sound scattered by a listener’s head. In conventional sound field synthesis (SFS) methods, the degradation in accuracy due to a listener’s head is negligible, because the degradation are smaller at the low reproducible frequencies than the discretization artifacts of synthesized sound field. As LSFS method synthesizes the sound field only to a narrow extent at higher frequencies which is not considered in the conventional methods, how degraded the reproduction accuracy due to scattered sound in LSFS must be investigated. We conducted simulation experiments, using a rigid sphere for modeling the sound scattered by the head, using two LSFS methods: local wave field synthesis with virtual secondary sources (LWFS-VSS), and the pressure-matching method. The following two points were investigated: (i) The dependency of degradation on the frequency of sound and reproduction position; and (ii) the relationship between the virtual source distance and reproduction accuracy. The results showed that the degradation in the accuracy at the position opposite to the virtual source became larger as the frequency increased. Regarding the distance of the virtual source, when the source was placed near the listener’s head, the reproduction accuracy was significantly low. Specifically, in the case of LWFS-VSS, as the virtual source approached the head, the reproduction accuracy became more degraded compared with the no-scattering condition.
ER  -