Abstract: In virtual reality audio, sound source whose directions change rapidly should have higher attention level. But present bottom-up audio attention computational models extract the underlying characteristics of single channel audio such as energy, pitch, zero crossing rate etc., which can not effectively express the audio attention caused by such signals. To solve this problem, based on the psychological principles that spatial information affects attention, a model was proposed to introduce the short-term spatial gradient cues to measure the attention caused by the single audio source space direction changing. Compared to the traditional audio attention computational model, the recall of detection of attention audio events increased 4.5 percentage points in experiments.

Key words: audio, attention computational model, spatial cues, gradient