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BAUMGARTNER2013
Localization in saggital planes (simple)
Usage:
pmv = baumgartner2013( target,template ) [pmv,respang,tang] = baumgartner2013(target,template,varargin)
Input parameters:
| target | binaural impulse response(s) referring to the directional transfer function(s) (DFTs) of the target sound(s). Option 1: given in SOFA format -> sagittal plane DTFs will be extracted internally. Option 2: binaural impulse responses of all available listener-specific DTFs of the sagittal plane formatted according to the following matrix dimensions: time x direction x channel/ear |
| template | listener-specific template. Options 1 & 2 equivalent to target |
Output parameters:
| pmv | predicted probability mass vectors for response angles with respect to target positions. 1st dim: response angle. 2nd dim: target angle. |
| respang | polar response angles (after regularization of angular sampling) |
| tang | polar target angles in the given sagittal plane |
Description:
baumgartner2013(...) is a model for sound-source localization in sagittal planes (SPs). It bases on the comparison of internal sound representation with a template and results in a probabilistic prediction of polar angle response.
baumgartner2013 accepts the following key/value pairs:
| 'fs',fs | Define the sampling rate of the impulse responses. Default value is 48000 Hz. |
| 'stim',stim | Define the stimulus (source signal without directional features). As default an impulse is used. |
| 'fsstim',fss | Define the sampling rate of the stimulus. Default value is 48000 Hz. |
| 'flow',flow | Set the lowest frequency in the filterbank to flow. Default value is 700 Hz. |
| 'fhigh',fhigh | Set the highest frequency in the filterbank to fhigh. Default value is 18000 Hz. |
| 'lat',lat | Set the perceived lateral angle of the target sound to lat. Default value is 0 deg (midsagittal plane). |
| 'u',u | Set the listener-specific uncertainty (standard deviation of the Gaussian transformation from the distance metric of the comparison process to the similarity index) to u. Default value is 2 dB. |
| 'space',s | Set spacing of auditory filter bands to s numbers of equivalent rectangular bandwidths (ERBs). Default value is 1 ERB. |
| 'bwsteep',bws | Set the steepness factor bws of the sigmoid function applied for binaural weighting of monaural similarity indices. Default value is 13 deg. |
| 'polsamp',ps | Define the the polar angular sampling of the current SP. As default the sampling of ARI's HRTF format along the midsagittal plane is used, i.e., \(ps = [-30:5:70,80,100,110:5:210]\). |
baumgartner2013 accepts the following flags:
| 'gammatone' | Use the Gammatone filterbank for peripheral processing. This is the default. |
| 'langendijk2002_spectralanalysis' | |
| Use a filterbank approximation based on DFT with constant relative bandwidth for peripheral processing. This was used by Langendijk and Bronkhorst (2002). | |
| 'ihc' | Incorporate the transduction model of inner hair cells used by Dau et al. (1996). This is the default. |
| 'noihc' | Do not incorporate the IHC stage. |
| 'regular' | Apply spline interpolation in order to regularize the angular sampling of the polar response angle. This is the default. |
| 'noregular' | Disable regularization of angular sampling. |
Requirements:
- SOFA API from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sofacoustics for Matlab (in e.g. thirdparty/SOFA)
- Data in auxdata/baumgartner2013
References:
P. Majdak, R. Baumgartner, and B. Laback. Acoustic and non-acoustic factors in modeling listener-specific performance of sagittal-plane sound localization. Front Psychol, 5(319):pages not available yet, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00319, 2014. [ DOI ]
R. Baumgartner. Modeling sagittal-plane sound localization with the application to subband-encoded head related transfer functions. Master's thesis, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, June 2012. [ .pdf ]
R. Baumgartner, P. Majdak, and B. Laback. Assessment of Sagittal-Plane Sound Localization Performance in Spatial-Audio Applications, chapter 4, pages 93--119. Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2013.
T. Dau, D. Pueschel, and A. Kohlrausch. A quantitative model of the effective signal processing in the auditory system. I. Model structure. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99(6):3615--3622, 1996a.
E. Langendijk and A. Bronkhorst. Contribution of spectral cues to human sound localization. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112:1583--1596, 2002.
R. Patterson, I. Nimmo-Smith, J. Holdsworth, and P. Rice. An efficient auditory filterbank based on the gammatone function. APU report, 2341, 1987.
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