@inproceedings {Grimm1624_2016, year = {2016}, author = {Grimm, Giso and Hendrikse, Maartje and Josupeit, Angela and Buschermöhle, Michael and Hohmann, Volker}, title = {Hearing aid evaluation using complex acoustic scenarios}, booktitle = {Int. Hear. Aid Res. Conf. (IHCON)}, URL = {http://ihcon.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Formatted-2016-Program.pdf}, abstract = {With increasing complexity of hearing aids, the use of realistic and complex acoustic environments in the laboratory for hearing aid evaluation gains more and more attention. This contribution presents several listening scenarios relevant to hearing aid research that were defined for this purpose and rendered with a suitable virtual acoustics method. The scenarios vary in acoustic complexity and comprise in-door communication scenarios, in-door passive listening scenarios, and out-door environments, including public transport. Case studies using subsets of these scenarios are presented: Estimates of aided performance of different classes of hearing-aid algorithms using a virtual hearing aid, influence of source and receiver movement on beamformer performance, speech intelligibility measures using an international matrix test and evaluation of an auditory-based scene analysis algorithm. [Work funded by DFG FOR1732, SFB/TR31 and EXC 107} }