Robust spatial hearing despite reverberation has driven decades of binaural modeling research.

Evidence

As discussed in Chapter 12, human spatial hearing capabilities are based on the binaural and monaural analysis of the ear canal signals. Spatial hearing is able to localize sources with good accuracy, although the reflections and reverberations of the room may corrupt the directional cues in the ear canal signals. This remarkable ability has, for decades, inspired researchers to model spatial hearing. A plethora of binaural and monaural models of spatial hearing have been proposed (Blauert, 1996, 2013; Colburn, 1996; Stern and Trahiotis, 1995), and some of them are discussed next. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1660