TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluation of binaural renderers
T2 - AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality: Science, Technology, Design, and Implementation, AVAR 2018
AU - Reardon, Gregory
AU - Genovese, Andrea
AU - Zalles, Gabriel
AU - Flanagan, Patrick
AU - Roginska, Agnieszka
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - A multi-phase subjective experiment evaluating six commercially available binaural audio renderers was carried out. This paper presents the methodology, evaluation criteria, and main findings of the tests which assessed perceived sound quality of the renderers. Subjects appraised a number of specific sound quality attributes - timbral balance, clarity, naturalness, spaciousness, and dialogue intelligibility - and ranked, in terms of preference, the renderers for a set of music and movie stimuli presented over headphones. Results indicated that differences between the perceived quality and preference for a renderer are discernible. Binaural renderer performance was also found to be highly content-dependent, with significant interactions between renderers and individual stimuli being found, making it difficult to determine an "optimal" renderer for all settings.
AB - A multi-phase subjective experiment evaluating six commercially available binaural audio renderers was carried out. This paper presents the methodology, evaluation criteria, and main findings of the tests which assessed perceived sound quality of the renderers. Subjects appraised a number of specific sound quality attributes - timbral balance, clarity, naturalness, spaciousness, and dialogue intelligibility - and ranked, in terms of preference, the renderers for a set of music and movie stimuli presented over headphones. Results indicated that differences between the perceived quality and preference for a renderer are discernible. Binaural renderer performance was also found to be highly content-dependent, with significant interactions between renderers and individual stimuli being found, making it difficult to determine an "optimal" renderer for all settings.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85056866438
T3 - Proceedings of the AES International Conference
SP - 60
EP - 73
BT - AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality 2018
PB - Audio Engineering Society
Y2 - 20 August 2018 through 22 August 2018
ER -