Assessment of auditory function and abilities in life-like listening scenarios (C05)

• Subject Area: Acoustics
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 352015383

Complex acoustic scenes created in virtual reality can be used to address important questions on auditory perception beyond the scope of the simplified stimuli and conditions of classical psychoacoustic laboratory tests. Based on the ecologically relevant environments developed in the first funding period, we will ad-vance auralization techniques and perceptually verify their system components against ground truth meas-urements in real environments with the goal to enable reproducible science in virtual acoustic environ-ments. We will advance our psychophysical test methods towards novel interactive approaches in audio-visual scenes that include avatars and automated, continuous performance analysis with observational techniques.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1330: Hearing acoustics: Perceptual principles, Algorithms and Applications (HAPPAA)
• Applicant Institution: Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
• Project Heads: Dr. Stephan Ewert; Professor Dr.-Ing. Bernhard U. Seeber