Distance rendering and perception of nearby virtual sound sources with a near-field filter model

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• 作者：Simone Spagnol^a ; ^{spagnols@hi.is" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Erica Tavazzi^b ; ^{tavazzie@dei.unipd.it" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Federico Avanzini^b ; ^{avanzini@dei.unipd.it" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Auditory distance ; Near field ; Binaural audio rendering ; HRTF
• 刊名：Applied Acoustics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：1 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：115
• 期：Complete
• 页码：61-73
• 全文大小：1458 K

文摘

Headphone rendering of nearby virtual sound sources represents to date an open issue in 3-D audio, due to a number of technical challenges and temporal requirements involved in the measurement of individual Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs). In order to tackle this problem, we propose a filter model of near-field effects based on the Distance Variation Function (Kan et al., 2009). Thanks to its simple structure and low order, the model can be applied to any far-field virtual auditory display to yield a realistic and computationally efficient near-field compensation of spectral and binaural effects. The model is subjectively evaluated in two psychophysical experiments where the relative distance of pairs of virtually rendered sound sources is judged. Results show that even though sound intensity overshadows subtler near-field effects when it is available as a cue for distance, the model is capable of offering relative distance information of near lateral virtual sources when intensity cues are removed. Furthermore, performances of the model in relative distance rendering are compared to those of alternative near-field rendering methods available in the literature.