Understanding perceived room acoustical similarity is crucial to generating perceptually optimized audio rendering algorithms that maximize the perceived quality while minimizing the computational cost. In this paper we present a perceptual study in which listeners compare dynamic binaural renderings generated from spatial room impulse responses (SRIRs) obtained in several rooms and positions and are asked to identify whether they belong to the same space. The perceptual results, together with monaural room acoustical parameters, are used to generate a prediction model that estimates the perceived similarity of two SRIRs.

Authors: Helmholz, Hannes; Ananthabhotla, Ishwarya; Calamia, Paul T.; Amengual Gari, Sebastià V.
Affiliations: Reality Labs Research at Meta, Redmon, WA, USA; Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Conference: 2022 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality (August 2022)
Paper Number: 20
Publication Date: August 15, 2022 Import into BibTeX
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