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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

This study investigates the approach of direction-dependent selection of Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) and its impact on sound localization accuracy. For applications such as virtual reality (VR) and teleconferencing, obtaining…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Sapir Goldring , Zamir Ben Hur , David Lou Alon , Boaz Rafaely

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

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

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

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 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

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

An important problem to be solved in modeling head-related impulse responses (HRIRs) is how to individualize HRIRs so that they are suitable for a listener. We modeled the entire magnitude head-related transfer functions (HRTFs), in…

Sound · Computer Science 2010-05-28 W. Wahab Hugeng , D. Gunawan

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

Given an input sound signal and a target virtual sound source, sound spatialisation algorithms manipulate the signal so that a listener perceives it as though it were emitted from the target source. There exist several established…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Ali Tarzan , Marco Alunno , Paolo Bientinesi

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

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

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
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