Binaural model for artificial spatial sound localization based on interaural time delays and movements of the interaural axis

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3108-3119

  Kneip, Laurent ^a   Baumann, Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Boarding Institution   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL MODELS; CARTESIAN COORDINATES; DEGREES OF FREEDOMS; FAR FIELDS; INTERAURAL TIME DELAYS; LOCALIZATION PROBLEMS; LOW COSTS; LOW POWERS; MICROPHONE SYSTEMS; ON TIMES; PARALLAX MOTIONS; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SOUND LOCALIZATIONS; SOUND SOURCES; SPACE USING; SPATIAL SOUNDS; SPEED OF SOUNDS;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; ASTROPHYSICS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MICROPHONES; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

ROTATION;

ACCURACY; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BINAURAL HEARING; INSTRUMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; MICROPHONE; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; ROTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; ROBOTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 56749165552     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2977746     Document Type: Article

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