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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…

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Spatial audio, which focuses on immersive 3D sound rendering, is widely applied in the acoustic industry. One of the key problems of current spatial audio rendering methods is the lack of personalization based on different anatomies of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xiaoyang Huang , Yanjun Wang , Yang Liu , Bingbing Ni , Wenjun Zhang , Jinxian Liu , Teng Li

Efficient modeling of the inter-individual variations of head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) is a key matterto the individualization of binaural synthesis. In previous work, we augmented a dataset of 119 pairs of earshapes and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Corentin Guezenoc , Renaud Seguier

Traditional Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) acquisition methods rely on specialised equipment and acoustic expertise, posing accessibility challenges. Alternatively, high-resolution 3D modelling offers a pathway to numerically…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Ludovic Pirard , Katarina C. Poole , Lorenzo Picinali

In this work, we address the problem of binaural target-speaker extraction in the presence of multiple simultane-ous talkers. We propose a novel approach that leverages the individual listener's Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Yoav Ellinson , Sharon Gannot

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

Environmental audio tagging is a newly proposed task to predict the presence or absence of a specific audio event in a chunk. Deep neural network (DNN) based methods have been successfully adopted for predicting the audio tags in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Yong Xu , Qiuqiang Kong , Qiang Huang , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

A deep learning framework for dynamically rendering personal sound zones (PSZs) with head tracking is presented, utilizing a spatially adaptive neural network (SANN) that inputs listeners' head coordinates and outputs PSZ filter…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Yue Qiao , Edgar Choueiri

This work introduces a novel method for binaural reproduction from arbitrary microphone arrays, based on array-aware optimization of Ambisonics encoding through Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) pre-processing. The proposed approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Yhonatan Gayer , Vladimir Tourbabin , Zamir Ben Hur , David Lou Alon , Boaz Rafaely

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

In this work, we propose a two-dimensional Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF)-based robust beamformer design for robot audition, which allows for explicit control of the beamformer response for the entire three-dimensional sound field…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Hendrik Barfuss , Michael Buerger , Jasper Podschus , Walter Kellermann

In this work, we propose a deep beamforming framework for speech enhancement in dynamic acoustic environments. The framework learns time-varying beamformer weights from noisy multichannel signals via a deep neural network, guided by a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Ilai Zaidel , Sharon Gannot

Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) describe the directional filtering of the incoming sound caused by the morphology of a listener's head and pinnae. When an accurate model of a listener's morphology exists, HRTFs can be calculated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Harald Ziegelwanger , Wolfgang Kreuzer , Piotr Majdak

In this paper, we study the performance of variants of well-known Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures on different audio tasks. We show that tuning the Receptive Field (RF) of CNNs is crucial to their generalization. An…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Khaled Koutini , Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Gerhard Widmer

Motivated by the fact that characteristics of different sound classes are highly diverse in different temporal scales and hierarchical levels, a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture is proposed for the environmental…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Boqing Zhu , Kele Xu , Dezhi Wang , Lilun Zhang , Bo Li , Yuxing Peng

In this work, we propose a robust Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF)-based polynomial beamformer design which accounts for the influence of a humanoid robot's head on the sound field. In addition, it allows for a flexible steering of our…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Hendrik Barfuss , Marcel Mueglich , Walter Kellermann

Deep learning-based Personal Sound Zones (PSZs) rely on simulated acoustic transfer functions (ATFs) for training, yet idealized point-source models exhibit large sim-to-real gaps. While physically informed components improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Hao Jiang , Edgar Choueiri

This paper presents a simulation-based approach to own voice detection (OVD) in hearing aids using a single microphone. While OVD can significantly improve user comfort and speech intelligibility, existing solutions often rely on multiple…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become widely adopted in gravitational wave (GW) detection pipelines due to their ability to automatically learn hierarchical features from raw strain data. However, the physical meaning of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jun Tian , He Wang , Jibo He , Yu Pan , Shuo Cao , Qingquan Jiang

Music auto-tagging is often handled in a similar manner to image classification by regarding the 2D audio spectrogram as image data. However, music auto-tagging is distinguished from image classification in that the tags are highly diverse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Jongpil Lee , Juhan Nam