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Presentation 2011-11-15 15:00
Relationships between spectral distance correlation and sound localization in the median plane
Ryouichi Nishimura, Hiroaki Kato, Hironori Takemoto, Parham Mokhtari (NICT) EMM2011-54
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(in English) Spatial audio technologies allow audio media to contain spatial information more flexibly than conventional stereo or surround systems, and could be one of technologies for the multimedia enrichment in the next generation. Those that use headphones to present sound to a listener generally exploit head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to simulate the reflection and diffraction at the outer ear of the listener. In using headphones, we often encounter an issue that a virtual sound source in front of the listener is perceived as if it located at the zenith or the rear, sometimes at the inside of the head. In order to find out the reason, we employed distance correlation between pairs of HRTF spectra for different directions in the median plane as a measure of similarity, focusing on whether headphone calibration was applied or not. The results showed that the HRTF of the frontal direction is similar to that of the rear, and that the similarity of HRTFs of the frontal direction for the cases with and without headphone calibration is at the same level as that between the front and the rear both with headphone calibration.
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(in English) Distance correlation / Sound localization in the median plane / Head-related transfer function / Spatial sound / Sound media / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 111, no. 287, EMM2011-54, pp. 83-88, Nov. 2011.
Paper # EMM2011-54 
Date of Issue 2011-11-07 (EMM) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee EMM  
Conference Date 2011-11-14 - 2011-11-15 
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Conference Code 2011-11-EMM 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Relationships between spectral distance correlation and sound localization in the median plane 
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Keyword(1) Distance correlation  
Keyword(2) Sound localization in the median plane  
Keyword(3) Head-related transfer function  
Keyword(4) Spatial sound  
Keyword(5) Sound media  
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1st Author's Name Ryouichi Nishimura  
1st Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
2nd Author's Name Hiroaki Kato  
2nd Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
3rd Author's Name Hironori Takemoto  
3rd Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
4th Author's Name Parham Mokhtari  
4th Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
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Date Time 2011-11-15 15:00:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
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Paper # EMM2011-54 
Volume (vol) vol.111 
Number (no) no.287 
Page pp.83-88 
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Date of Issue 2011-11-07 (EMM) 


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