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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…

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

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

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

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

High fidelity spatial audio often performs better when produced using a personalized head-related transfer function (HRTF). However, the direct acquisition of HRTFs is cumbersome and requires specialized equipment. Thus, many…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Lior Arbel , Ishwarya Ananthabhotla , Zamir Ben-Hur , David Lou Alon , Boaz Rafaely

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

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

A primary challenge in developing synthetic spatial hearing systems, particularly underwater, is accurately modeling sound scattering. Biological organisms achieve 3D spatial hearing by exploiting sound scattering off their bodies to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Siminfar Samakoush Galougah , Pranav Pulijala , Ramani Duraiswami

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

We present the generalized iterative residual fitting (IRF) for the computation of the spherical harmonic transform (SHT) of band-limited signals on the sphere. The proposed method is based on the partitioning of the subspace of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Usama Elahi , Zubair Khalid , Rodney A. Kennedy , Jason D. McEwen

Head-related transfer function (HRTF) is an essential component to create an immersive listening experience over headphones for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications. Metaverse combines VR and AR to create immersive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-19 Ee-Leng Tan , Santi Peksi , Woon-Seng Gan

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

Accurate interpolation of functions and derivatives is crucial in solving partial differential equations (PDEs). The Radial Basis Function (RBF) method has become an extremely popular and robust approach for interpolation on scattered data.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Amirhossein Fashamiha , David Salac

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

A method of interpolating the acoustic transfer function (ATF) between regions that takes into account both the physical properties of the ATF and the directionality of region configurations is proposed. Most spatial ATF interpolation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Juliano G. C. Ribeiro , Shoichi Koyama , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Human pose assessment and correction play a crucial role in applications across various fields, including computer vision, robotics, sports analysis, healthcare, and entertainment. In this paper, we propose a Spatial-Temporal Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Wenyang Hu , Kai Liu , Libin Liu , Huiliang Shang

Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are important for immersive audio, and their spatial interpolation has been studied to upsample finite measurements. Recently, neural fields (NFs) which map from sound source direction to HRTF have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Yoshiki Masuyama , Gordon Wichern , François G. Germain , Zexu Pan , Sameer Khurana , Chiori Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

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

The individuality of head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) is a key issue for binaural synthesis. While, over the years, a lot of work has been accomplished to propose end-user-friendly solutions to HRTF personalization, it remains a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Corentin Guezenoc , Renaud Seguier