Quality assessment of auditory virtual environments
Renato Pellegrini · 2001
Practical applications for auditory virtual environments (AVEs) are ever increasing. The achievable quality of AVEs has reached a level, where realworld problems can often be solved in a convenient way by using AVEs, meaning e.g. less expensive or more flexible than a real-world solution. Nowadays, the quality of AVEs is often measured in terms of their technical capacity to approximate the physical behavior of a real environment. As the design goals for AVEs shift from “reproducing the physical behavior of a real environment as accurate as possible ” to “stimulating the desired perception directly ” this comparative quality measure is no longer feasible. This paper describes parameters influencing the perceived quality of AVEs. Moreover, the dependence of perceived quality on the application is emphasized. 1