The Effect of Immersive Audio Rendering on Listeners’ Emotional State

Immersive audio rendering techniques allow for generating a 3D scenario where the listener can perceive the sound from all directions. An important aspect of these approaches is the subjective perception of the listener and how these types of systems are perceived from the emotional point of view and how they can influence the listener’s mood. In this context, a deep investigation of immersive sound perception considering subjective perception in terms of flowing emotion is performed. Starting from a 4-channels immersive audio system and an emotion-aware system based on the analysis of the user’s facial expressions, several experiments have been performed to investigate a correlation between immersive perception and the listener’s emotions.