DIY Measurement of Your Personal HRTF at Home: Low-Cost, Fast and Validated

Reijniers J, Partoens B, Peremans H. DIY Measurement of Your Personal HRTF at Home: Low-Cost, Fast and Validated. In: AES Convention 143. Audio Engineering Society; 2017. Paper 399. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19347

@inproceedings{Reijniers2017_19347,
  author = {Reijniers, Jonas and Partoens, Bart and Peremans, Herbert},
  title = {{DIY Measurement of Your Personal HRTF at Home: Low-Cost, Fast and Validated}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 143},
  note = {Paper 399},
  year = {2017},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19347}
}

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AB  - The breakthrough of 3D audio has been hampered by the lack of personalized head-related transfer functions (HRTF) required to create realistic 3D audio environments using headphones. In this paper we present a new method for the user to personalize his/her HRTF, similar to the measurement in an anechoic room, yet it is low-cost and can be carried out at home. We compare the resulting HRTFs with those measured in an anechoic room. Subjecting the participants to a virtual localization experiment, we show that they perform significantly better when using their personalized HRTF, compared to a generic HRTF. We believe this method has the potential of opening the way for large scale commercial use of 3D audio through headphones.
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