Meet the editors

Brian F.G. Katz is a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Sorbonne Université, Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, in the group Lutheries - Acoustics - Music. His fields of interest include spatial 3D audio rendering and perception, room acoustics, HCI, and virtual reality. With a background in physics and philosophy, he obtained his Ph.D. in Acoustics from Penn State in 1998 and his HDR in Engineering

Sciences from UMPC in 2011. Before joining CNRS, he worked for various acoustic consulting firms, including Artec Consultants Inc., ARUP & Partners, and Kahle Acoustics. He has also worked at Laboratoire d'Acoustique Musical (UPMC), IR-CAM, and LIMSI-CNRS.

Piotr Majdak studied electrical and audio engineering at the University of Technology and the University of Music and Performing Arts, both in Graz, Austria. He is the deputy director of the Acoustics Research Institute (ARI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) where he is a member of the psychoacoustics and experimental audiology group. He received his Ph.D. in Psychoacoustics and Signal Processing and is a professor of

acoustics and audio engineering. He regularly teaches at various universities. His main interest is the understanding of spatial hearing in humans linked to its various applications in spatial-audio reproduction systems.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

*by Wolfgang Klippel*

Functions – An Overview

Accuracy and Learning Assessment

*by Isaac Engel and Lorenzo Picinali*

Size Perception under Rich-Cue Conditions *by Hans-Joachim Maempel and Michael Horn*

Computational Efficiency and Perceived Quality

Binaural Reproduction Based on Bilateral Ambisonics

**Preface XI**

Acoustic Methodology **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 25** Perspective Chapter: Modern Acquisition of Personalised Head-Related Transfer

Perception **61**

**Chapter 3 63**

**Chapter 4 95**

**Chapter 5 133**

Applications **153**

**Chapter 6 155**

HRTF Performance Evaluation: Methodology and Metrics for Localisation

*by David Poirier-Quinot, Martin S. Lawless, Peter Stitt and Brian F.G. Katz*

The Influences of Hearing and Vision on Egocentric Distance and Room

Reverberation and Its Binaural Reproduction: The Trade-off between

*by Zamir Ben-Hur, David Alon, Or Berebi, Ravish Mehra and Boaz Rafaely*

Modeling and Testing of Loudspeakers Used in Sound-Field Control

*by Katharina Pollack, Wolfgang Kreuzer and Piotr Majdak*
