3D binaural sounds play an important role in the development of navigational systems for the blind people. The use of generic HRTFs in virtual auditory displays significantly affects the acoustic spatial resolution and ...

The Head Related Transfer Function (HRTF) characterizes the auditory cues created by scattering of sound off a person's anatomy. While it is known that features in the HRTF can be associated with various phenomena, such ...

Until recently, multiple speaker systems for Virtual Environment (VE) applications were limited to a few front and rear speakers. Utilizing the Virtual Audio Server (VAS) with a Vector Base Amplitude Panning (VBAP) algorithm ...

In tasks that require listeners to monitor two or more simultaneous talkers, substantial performance benefits can be achieved by spatially separating the competing speech messages with a virtual audio display. Although the ...

The individualization of head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) for virtual acoustics is a key technique for the optimization of the directional reproduction. This paper presents a subjective selection method for a fast, ...

To gain a better understanding of what parameters influence the redirection of attention to auditory stimuli, principal spatiotemporal factors and their affect on subjects' focus were studied during a categorization task. ...

Virtual audio simulators are the basic tools for localization experiments focusing on the parameters of the applied HRTFs. This paper presents a software solution capable of playback monotic wave files, setting the ...

In this paper we propose a method to customize a spherical head model for binaural sound rendering based on the listener’s anthropometry. Interaural level difference (ILD) information from a HRTF database is used to ...

The ultimate goal of sonification is to transfer information effectively to listeners. While there is a large amount of multidisciplinary investigation in the field of psychoacoustic, psychology, cognition and human computer ...

While the angular spatialization of source sounds through individualized Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) has been extensively investigated in auditory display research, also leading to effective real-time rendering ...