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A Front-Back Confusion Metric in Horizontal Sound Localization: The FBC Score

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Marco Caversaccio,

Wilhelm WimmerAuthors Info & Claims

SAP '20: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2020

Article No.: 11, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/3385955.3407928

Published: 12 September 2020 Publication History

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Abstract

In sound localization experiments, currently used metrics for front-back confusion (FBC) analysis weight the occurring FBCs equally, regardless of their deviation from the cone of confusion. To overcome this limitation, we introduce the FBC Score. A sound localization experiment in the horizontal plane with 12 bilaterally implanted cochlear implants (CI) users and 12 normal hearing subjects was performed to validate the method with real data. The overall FBC Rate of the CI users was twice as high as the FBC Score. For the control group, the FBC Rate was 4 times higher than the FBC Score. The results indicate that the FBC Rate is inflated by FBCs that show a considerable deviation from the corresponding value on the cone of confusion.

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SAP '20: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2020

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ISBN:9781450376181

DOI:10.1145/3385955

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