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A Head Related Transfer Function (HRTF) characterizes how a human ear receives sounds from a point in space, and depends on the shapes of one's head, pinna, and torso. Accurate estimations of HRTFs for human subjects are crucial in enabling…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Navid H. Zandi , Awny M. El-Mohandes , Rong Zheng

This paper introduces a new approach to sound source localization using head-related transfer function (HRTF) characteristics, which enable precise full-sphere localization from raw data. While previous research focused primarily on using…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Gil Geva , Olivier Warusfel , Shlomo Dubnov , Tammuz Dubnov , Amir Amedi , Yacov Hel-Or

The demand for realistic virtual immersive audio continues to grow, with Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) playing a key role. HRTFs capture how sound reaches our ears, reflecting unique anatomical features and enhancing spatial…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Xuyi Hu , Jian Li , Lorenzo Picinali , Aidan O. T. Hogg

The head-related transfer function (HRTF) characterizes the frequency response of the sound traveling path between a specific location and the ear. When it comes to estimating HRTFs by neural network models, angle-specific models greatly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Keng-Wei Chang , Yih-Liang Shen , Tai-Shi Chi

A new database of head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) for accurate sound source localization is presented through precise measurement and post-processing in terms of improved frequency bandwidth and causality of head-related impulse…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-07 Gyeong-Tae Lee , Sang-Min Choi , Byeong-Yun Ko , Yong-Hwa Park

Head Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) play a crucial role in creating immersive spatial audio experiences. However, HRTFs differ significantly from person to person, and traditional methods for estimating personalized HRTFs are expensive,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-08 Vivek Jayaram , Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman , Steven M. Seitz

Estimating Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) of arbitrary source points is essential in immersive binaural audio rendering. Computing each individual's HRTFs is challenging, as traditional approaches require expensive time and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Jin Woo Lee , Sungho Lee , Kyogu Lee

Spatial audio and 3-Dimensional sound rendering techniques play a pivotal and essential role in immersive audio experiences. Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) are acoustic filters which represent how sound interacts with an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-23 Ludovic Pirard

This paper addresses the problem of sound-source localization (SSL) with a robot head, which remains a challenge in real-world environments. In particular we are interested in locating speech sources, as they are of high interest for…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xiaofei Li , Laurent Girin , Fabien Badeig , Radu Horaud

The objective of Audio Augmented Reality (AAR) applications are to seamlessly integrate virtual sound sources within a real environment. It is critical for these applications that virtual sources are localised precisely at the intended…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Vincent Martin , Lorenzo Picinali

Personalized head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are essential for ensuring a realistic auditory experience over headphones, because they take into account individual anatomical differences that affect listening. Most machine learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 You Zhang , Andrew Francl , Ruohan Gao , Paul Calamia , Zhiyao Duan , Ishwarya Ananthabhotla

Sound source localization (SSL) technology plays a crucial role in various application areas such as fault diagnosis, speech separation, and vibration noise reduction. Although beamforming algorithms are widely used in SSL, their resolution…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Wenbo Ma , Yan Lu , Yijun Liu

Sound source localization (SSL) is essential for many speech-processing applications. Deep learning models have achieved high performance, but often fail when the training and inference environments differ. Adapting SSL models to dynamic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Yang Xiao , Rohan Kumar Das

Sound source localization (SSL) is the task of locating the source of sound within an image. Due to the lack of localization labels, the de facto standard in SSL has been to represent an image and audio as a single embedding vector each,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Inho Kim , Youngkil Song , Jicheol Park , Won Hwa Kim , Suha Kwak

Personalized Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) are starting to be introduced in many commercial immersive audio applications and are crucial for realistic spatial audio rendering. However, one of the main hesitations regarding their…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Xuyi Hu , Jian Li , Shaojie Zhang , Stefan Goetz , Lorenzo Picinali , Ozgur B. Akan , Aidan O. T. Hogg

Sound source localization (SSL) adds a spatial dimension to auditory perception, allowing a system to pinpoint the origin of speech, machinery noise, warning tones, or other acoustic events, capabilities that facilitate robot navigation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Reza Jalayer , Masoud Jalayer , Amirali Baniasadi

Individualized head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are crucial for accurate sound positioning in virtual auditory displays. As the acoustic measurement of HRTFs is resource-intensive, predicting individualized HRTFs using machine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-28 Yutong Wen , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan

Precise elevation perception in binaural audio remains a challenge, despite extensive research on head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) and spectral cues. While prior studies have advanced our understanding of sound localization cues, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Juan Antonio De Rus , Mario Montagud , Jesus Lopez-Ballester , Francesc J. Ferri , Maximo Cobos

Personalized binaural audio reproduction is the basis of realistic spatial localization, sound externalization, and immersive listening, directly shaping user experience and listening effort. This survey reviews recent advances in deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Xikun Lu , Yunda Chen , Zehua Chen , Jie Wang , Mingxing Liu , Hongmei Hu , Chengshi Zheng , Stefan Bleeck , Jinqiu Sang

Data-based and learning-based sound source localization (SSL) has shown promising results in challenging conditions, and is commonly set as a classification or a regression problem. Regression-based approaches have certain advantages over…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Sharath Adavanne , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen
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