Abinaural-loudness-model-basedmethodforevaluatingthespatialdiscriminationthresholdofmagnitudesofhead-relatedtransferfunction(HRTF)isproposed.Astheinputofthebinauralloudnessmodel,theHRTFmagnitudevariationscausedbyspatialpositionvariationswerefirstlycalculatedfromahigh-resolutionHRTFdataset.Then,threeperceptualrelevantparameters,namelyinterauralloudnessleveldifference,binauralloudnesslevelspectra,andtotalbinauralloudnesslevel,werederivedfromthebinauralloudnessmodel.Finally,thespatialdiscriminationthresholdsofHRTFmagnitudewereevaluatedaccordingtojust-noticedifferenceoftheabove-mentionedperceptual-relevantparameters.AseriesofpsychoacousticexperimentswasalsoconductedtoobtainthespatialdiscriminationthresholdofHRTFmagnitudes.Resultsindicatethatthethresholdderivedfromtheproposedbinaural-loudness-modelbasedmethodisconsistentwiththatobtainedfromthetraditionalpsychoacousticexperiment,validatingtheeffectivenessoftheproposedmethod.
