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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

An individualised head-related transfer function (HRTF) is very important for creating realistic virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) environments. However, acoustically measuring high-quality HRTFs requires expensive equipment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Aidan O. T. Hogg , Mads Jenkins , He Liu , Isaac Squires , Samuel J. Cooper , Lorenzo Picinali

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

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

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

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

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) 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

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 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

Spatial audio and 3-Dimensional sound rendering techniques play a pivotal and essential role in immersive audio experiences. Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) are acoustic filters which represent how sound interacts with an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-23 Ludovic Pirard

A method for head-related transfer function (HRTF) individualization from the subject's anthropometric parameters is proposed. Due to the high cost of measurement, the number of subjects included in many HRTF datasets is limited, and the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ryan Niu , Shoichi Koyama , Tomohiko Nakamura

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 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

Estimating Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) of arbitrary source points is essential in immersive binaural audio rendering. Computing each individual's HRTFs is challenging, as traditional approaches require expensive time and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Jin Woo Lee , Sungho Lee , Kyogu Lee

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

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

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

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

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
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