An audio localization test of moving virtual sound sources was carried out in a spatially immersive virtual environment, using loudspeaker array with vector based amplitude panning for reproduction of sound sources. Azimuth and elevation error in localization was measured. In this experiment the main emphasis was to explore the effect of a distracting auditory stimulus. Eight subjects accomplis...

It is well known that the transfer functions for out-of-head sound localization differ with the listener. Our goal is to find a method that easily realizes excellent sound localization without measuring the individual transfer functions. This paper proposes an out-of-head sound localization system that uses adaptive inverse filtering without any measuring preprocesses. This system estimates the...

OBJECTIVE To report a successful case of cochlear implantation and auditory training for the improvement of sound localization in a patient with single-sided deafness. STUDY DESIGN Case report and literature review. SETTING Tertiary referral otology practice. PATIENT Fifty-seven-year-old man receiving cochlear implantation after 8 years of unilateral sensorineural hearing loss. INTERVEN...

Sound localization by barn owls is commonly modeled as a matching procedure where localization cues derived from auditory inputs are compared to stored templates. While the matching models can explain properties of neural responses, no model explains how the owl resolves spatial ambiguity in the localization cues to produce accurate localization for sources near the center of gaze. Here, I exam...

Natural environments typically contain sound sources other than the source of interest that may interfere with the ability of listeners to extract information about the primary source. Studies of speech intelligibility and localization by normal-hearing listeners in the presence of competing speech are reported on in this work. One, two or three competing sentences [IEEE Trans. Audio Electroaco...