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Expressing head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) in spherical harmonic (SH) domain has been thoroughly studied as a method of obtaining continuity over space. However, HRTFs are functions not only of direction but also of frequency. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Adam Szwajcowski

Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are crucial for spatial soundfield reproduction in virtual reality applications. However, obtaining personalized, high-resolution HRTFs is a time-consuming and costly task. Recently, deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Xingyu Chen , Fei Ma , Yile Zhang , Amy Bastine , Prasanga N. Samarasinghe

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

Accurate upsampling of Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) from sparse measurements is crucial for personalized spatial audio rendering. Traditional interpolation methods, such as kernel-based weighting or basis function expansions,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Xingyu Chen , Hanwen Bi , Fei Ma , Sipei Zhao , Eva Cheng , Ian S. Burnett

Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are a set of functions describing the spatial filtering effect of the outer ear (i.e., torso, head, and pinnae) onto sound sources at different azimuth and elevation angles. They are widely used in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-24 You Zhang , Yuxiang Wang , Zhiyao Duan

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

In the growing field of virtual auditory display, personalized head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) play a vital role in establishing an accurate sound image for mixed and augmented reality applications. In this work, we propose an HRTF…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-06 Yuxiang Wang , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan , Mark Bocko

Multi-channel speech enhancement utilizes spatial information from multiple microphones to extract the target speech. However, most existing methods do not explicitly model spatial cues, instead relying on implicit learning from…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Jiahui Pan , Shulin He , Hui Zhang , Xueliang Zhang

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

Throughout last 30 years, numerous head-related transfer function (HRTF) models have been developed and there are more to come. This paper describes a framework based on objective-oriented programming paradigm, in which each HRTF…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Adam Szwajcowski

Multi-channel speech enhancement extracts speech using multiple microphones that capture spatial cues. Effectively utilizing directional information is key for multi-channel enhancement. Deep learning shows great potential on multi-channel…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Jiahui Pan , Pengjie Shen , Hui Zhang , Xueliang Zhang

Measuring personal head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) is essential in binaural audio. Personal HRTFs are not only required for binaural rendering and for loudspeaker-based binaural reproduction using crosstalk cancellation, but they…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Tobias Kabzinski , Peter Jax

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

The mathematical representations of data in the Spherical Harmonic (SH) domain has recently regained increasing interest in the machine learning community. This technical report gives an in-depth introduction to the theoretical foundation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Janis Keuper

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

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

Spherical harmonics are a favorable technique for 3D representation, employing a frequency-based approach through the spherical harmonic transform (SHT). Typically, SHT is performed using equiangular sampling grids. However, these grids are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Zikuan Li , Anyi Huang , Wenru Jia , Qiaoyun Wu , Mingqiang Wei , Jun Wang

In the last decade diffusion MRI has become a powerful tool to non-invasively study white-matter integrity in the brain. Recently many research groups have focused their attention on multi-shell spherical acquisitions with the aim of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2011-06-02 A. Daducci , J. D. McEwen , D. Van De Ville , J. -Ph. Thiran , Y. Wiaux

Linear operations on coefficients in the spherical harmonics (SH) transform domain that again yield SH-domain coefficients are an important toolset in many disciplines of research and engineering. They comprise rotations, spatially…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Maximilian Kentgens , Peter Jax

The successor representation (SR) provides a powerful framework for decoupling predictive dynamics from rewards, enabling rapid generalisation across reward configurations. However, the classical SR is limited by its inherent policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Changmin Yu , Máté Lengyel
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