Aural assessment by means of binaural algorithms -the AABBA project-

AABBA is an intellectual grouping with the goal of collaborating for 4-5 years on the application of computational models of human binaural hearing. The grouping will compile a battery of common software components for setting-up dedicated full-scale binaural models for various technological applications - particularly in areas related to communication acoustics. Examples are: quality assessment of audio channels and loudspeakers as well as rooms for acoustical performances, assessment of disorders of binaural hearing, assessment of speech-understanding capabilities in acoustically adverse surroundings, auditory-scene mapping, assessment of spatial properties of product sounds as well as of the sense of envelopment and immersion, analysis of human spatial hearing in a multimodal world with, for example, the listeners moving in space and/or receiving additional visual and/or tactile cues