Aural assessment by means of binaural algorithms −The AABBA project−

Authors

  • Jens Blauert Inst. of Communication Acoust., Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  • Jonas Braasch Carl Lab., Rensselaer Polytechn. Inst, Troy NY, USA
  • Jörg Buchholz Ctr. for Appl. Hearing Research, Techn. Univ., Lyngby, Denmark
  • H. Steven Colburn Hearing-Research Ctr., Boston Univ., Boston MA, USA
  • Ute Jekosch Chair of Communication Acoust., Techn. Univ. Dresden, Dresden, Germany
  • Armin Kohlrausch Techn. Univ. Eindhoven and Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  • John Mourjopoulos Wire Communication Lab., Patras Univ., Patras, Greece
  • Ville Pulkki Deptm. of Signal Proc., and Acoust., Helsinki Univ. Techn., Helsinki, Finland
  • Alexander Raake Techn. Univ. Berlin and Deutsche Telekom Labs., Berlin, Germany

Abstract

AABBA is an intellectual grouping with the goal of collaborating for 4−5 years on the application of computational models of human binaural hearing. The grouping will compile a battery of common software components for setting-up dedicated full-scale binaural models for various technological applications − particularly in areas related to communication acoustics. Examples are: quality assessment of audio channels and loudspeakers as well as rooms for acoustical performances, assessment of disorders of binaural hearing, assessment of speech-understanding capabilities in acoustically adverse surroundings, auditory-scene mapping, assessment of spatial properties of product sounds as well as of the sense of envelopment and immersion, analysis of human spatial hearing in a multimodal world with, for example, the listeners moving in space and/or receiving additional visual and/or tactile cues.

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2009-12-15

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Blauert, J., Braasch, J., Buchholz, J., Colburn, H. S., Jekosch, U., Kohlrausch, A., … Raake, A. (2009). Aural assessment by means of binaural algorithms −The AABBA project−. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research, 2, 113–124. Retrieved from https://proceedings.isaar.eu/index.php/isaarproc/article/view/2009-12

Issue

Vol. 2 (2009): Binaural Processing and Spatial Hearing

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2009/2. Perceptual measures and models of spatial hearing

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