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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

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

From a machine learning perspective, the human ability localize sounds can be modeled as a non-parametric and non-linear regression problem between binaural spectral features of sound received at the ears (input) and their sound-source…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-02-12 Yuancheng Luo , Dmitry N. Zotkin , Ramani Duraiswami

Sound source localization relies on spatial cues such as interaural time differences (ITD), interaural level differences (ILD), and monaural spectral cues. Individually measured Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) facilitate precise…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Nils Marggraf-Turley , Martha Shiell , Niels Pontoppidan , Drew Cappotto , Lorenzo Picinali

Individual head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are essential for accurate spatial audio binaural rendering but remain difficult to obtain due to measurement complexity. This study investigates whether photogrammetry-reconstructed (PR)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Ludovic Pirard , Lorenzo Picinali , Katarina C. Poole

Several individualization methods have recently been proposed to estimate a subject's Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) using convenient input modalities such as anthropometric measurements or pinnae photographs. There exists a need for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-23 Etienne Thuillier , Craig Jin , Vesa Välimäki

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

Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) have fundamental applications for realistic rendering in immersive audio scenarios. However, they are strongly subject-dependent as they vary considerably depending on the shape of the ears, head and…

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

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

This paper proposes an efficient parameterization of the Room Transfer Function (RTF). Typically, the RTF rapidly varies with varying source and receiver positions, hence requires an impractical number of point to point measurements to…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Prasanga Samarasinghe , Thushara Abhayapala , Mark Poletti , Terence Betlehem

Headphone-based spatial audio uses head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to simulate real-world acoustic environments. HRTFs are unique to everyone, due to personal morphology, shaping how sound waves interact with the body before…

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

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

In this work, a recently proposed Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF)-based Robust Least-Squares Frequency-Invariant (RLSFI) beamformer design is analyzed with respect to its robustness against localization errors, which lead to a…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Hendrik Barfuss , Walter Kellermann

Utilizing spherical harmonic (SH) domain has been established as the default method of obtaining continuity over space in head-related transfer functions (HRTFs). This paper concerns different variants of extending this solution by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Adam Szwajcowski

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

Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) with dense spatial grids are desired for immersive binaural audio generation, but their recording is time-consuming. Although HRTF spatial upsampling has shown remarkable progress with neural fields,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Yoshiki Masuyama , Gordon Wichern , François G. Germain , Christopher Ick , Jonathan Le Roux

Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) individualization is a key matter in binaural synthesis. However, currently available databases are limited in size compared to the high dimensionality of the data. Hereby, we present the process of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Corentin Guezenoc , Renaud Seguier

We present a head-related transfer function (HRTF) estimation method which relies on a data-driven prior given by a score-based diffusion model. The HRTF is estimated in reverberant environments using natural excitation signals, e.g. human…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Etienne Thuillier , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Eloi Moliner , Timo Gerkmann , Vesa Välimäki