Sound localization in individualized and non-individualized crosstalk cancellation systems

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2055-2068

  Majdak, Piotr ^a   Masiero, Bruno ^b   Fels, Janina ^b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL LOCALIZATION; CROSS-TALK CANCELLATION; CROSS-TALK CANCELLATION SYSTEMS; DEGRADED PERFORMANCE; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION; LOCALIZATION PERFORMANCE; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; LOUDSPEAKERS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SOUND REPRODUCTION;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLIFIER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84876122227     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4792355     Document Type: Article

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