HOBA-VR: HRTF On Demand for Binaural Audio in Immersive Virtual Reality Environments

Geronazzo M, Kleimola J, Sikström E, de Götzen A, Serafin S, Avanzini F. HOBA-VR: HRTF On Demand for Binaural Audio in Immersive Virtual Reality Environments. In: AES Convention 144. Audio Engineering Society; 2018. Paper 433. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19546

@inproceedings{Geronazzo2018_19546,
  author = {Geronazzo, Michele and Kleimola, Jari and Sikström, Erik and de Götzen, Amalia and Serafin, Stefania and Avanzini, Federico},
  title = {{HOBA-VR: HRTF On Demand for Binaural Audio in Immersive Virtual Reality Environments}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 144},
  note = {Paper 433},
  year = {2018},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19546}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - HOBA-VR: HRTF On Demand for Binaural Audio in Immersive Virtual Reality Environments
AU  - Geronazzo, Michele
AU  - Kleimola, Jari
AU  - Sikström, Erik
AU  - de Götzen, Amalia
AU  - Serafin, Stefania
AU  - Avanzini, Federico
T2  - AES Convention 144
M1  - Paper 433
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018/05/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19546
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - One of the main challenges of spatial audio rendering in headphones is the personalization of the so-called head-related transfer functions (HRTFs). HRTFs capture the listener’s acoustic effects supporting immersive and realistic virtual reality (VR) contexts. This e-brief presents the HOBA-VR framework that provides a full-body VR experience with personalized HRTFs that were individually selected on demand based on anthropometric data (pinnae shapes). The proposed WAVH transfer format allows a flexible management of this customization process. A screening test aiming to evaluate user localization performance with selected HRTFs for a non-visible spatialized audio source is also provided. Accordingly, is might be possible to create a user profile that contains also individual non-acoustic factors such as localizability, satisfaction, and confidence.
ER  -