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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

Beamforming with desired directivity patterns using compact microphone arrays is essential in many audio applications. Directivity patterns achievable using traditional beamformers depend on the number of microphones and the array aperture.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Weilong Huang , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Mhd Modar Halimeh , Oliver Thiergart , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Virtual sound synthesis is a technology that allows users to perceive spatial sound through headphones or earphones. However, accurate virtual sound requires an individual head-related transfer function (HRTF), which can be difficult to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Tatsuki Kobayashi , Yoshiko Maruyama , Isao Nambu , Shohei Yano , Yasuhiro Wada

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

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

To achieve immersive spatial audio rendering on VR/AR devices, high-quality Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) are essential. In general, HRTFs are subject-dependent and position-dependent, and their measurement is time-consuming and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-17 De Hu , Junsheng Hu , Cuicui Jiang

Recent advances in implicit neural representations (INRs) have shown significant promise in modeling visual signals for various low-vision tasks including image super-resolution (ISR). INR-based ISR methods typically learn continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yuxuan Jiang , Ho Man Kwan , Tianhao Peng , Ge Gao , Fan Zhang , Xiaoqing Zhu , Joel Sole , David Bull

This paper presents Rec-RIR for monaural blind room impulse response (RIR) identification. Rec-RIR is developed based on the convolutive transfer function (CTF) approximation, which models reverberation effect within narrow-band filter…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Pengyu Wang , Xiaofei Li

We propose a method of head-related transfer function (HRTF) interpolation from sparsely measured HRTFs using an autoencoder with source position conditioning. The proposed method is drawn from an analogy between an HRTF interpolation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yuki Ito , Tomohiko Nakamura , Shoichi Koyama , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are essential for virtual acoustic realities, as they contain all cues for localizing sound sources in three-dimensional space. Acoustic measurements are one way to obtain high-quality HRTFs. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-25 Johannes M. Arend , Christoph Pörschmann , Stefan Weinzierl , Fabian Brinkmann

Besides suppressing all undesired sound sources, an important objective of a binaural noise reduction algorithm for hearing devices is the preservation of the binaural cues, aiming at preserving the spatial perception of the acoustic scene.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 N. Gößling , S. Doclo

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) 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

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

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

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

Neural source-filter (NSF) models are deep neural networks that produce waveforms given input acoustic features. They use dilated-convolution-based neural filter modules to filter sine-based excitation for waveform generation, which is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-28 Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi

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

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

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