Perceptual Study of Near-Field Binaural Audio Rendering in Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Virtual Reality

Olli S Rummukainen; Sebastian J Schlecht; T Robotham; Axel Plinge; Emanuël A P Habets

doi:10.1109/VR.2019.8798177

Perceptual Study of Near-Field Binaural Audio Rendering in Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Virtual Reality

Olli S Rummukainen, Sebastian J Schlecht, T Robotham, Axel Plinge, Emanuël A P Habets

International Audio Laboratories Erlangen

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Auditory localization cues in the near-field (<1.0 m) are significantly different than in the far-field. The near-field region is within an arm’s length of the listener allowing to integrate proprioceptive cues to determine the location of an object in space. This perceptual study compares three non-individualized methods to apply head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) in six-degrees-of-freedom near-field audio rendering, namely, far-field measured HRTFs, multi-distance measured HRTFs, and spherical-model-based HRTFs with near-field extrapolation. To set our findings in context, we provide a real-world hand-held audio source for comparison along with a distance-invariant condition. Two modes of interaction are compared in an audio-visual virtual reality: one allowing the participant to move the audio object dynamically and the other with a stationary audio object but a freely moving listener.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728113777
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VR.2019.8798177
Publication status	Published - 2019
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces - Osaka, Japan Duration: 23 Mar 2019 → 27 Mar 2019

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Conference	IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces
Abbreviated title	VR
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Osaka
Period	23/03/2019 → 27/03/2019

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Human-centered computing—Human computer interaction (HCI)—Interaction paradigms—Virtual Reality
Human-centered computing—Human computer interaction (HCI)—Interaction paradigms—Mixed / augmented reality
Human-centered computing—Human computer interaction (HCI)—HCI design and evaluation methods—User studies

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Rummukainen, OS, Schlecht, SJ, Robotham, T, Plinge, A & Habets, EAP 2019, Perceptual Study of Near-Field Binaural Audio Rendering in Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Virtual Reality. in 2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR). IEEE, IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces , Osaka, Japan, 23/03/2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/VR.2019.8798177

Perceptual Study of Near-Field Binaural Audio Rendering in Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Virtual Reality. / Rummukainen, Olli S; Schlecht, Sebastian J; Robotham, T et al.
2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR). IEEE, 2019.

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