Global HRTF Personalization Using Anthropometric Measures

Wang Y, Zhang Y, Duan Z, Bocko M. Global HRTF Personalization Using Anthropometric Measures. In: AES Conference: 2020 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality (August 2020). Audio Engineering Society; 2020. Paper 10502. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21179

@inproceedings{Wang2020_21179,
  author = {Wang, Yuxiang and Zhang, You and Duan, Zhiyao and Bocko, Mark},
  title = {{Global HRTF Personalization Using Anthropometric Measures}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 2020 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality (August 2020)},
  note = {Paper 10502},
  year = {2020},
  month = aug,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21179}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Global HRTF Personalization Using Anthropometric Measures
AU  - Wang, Yuxiang
AU  - Zhang, You
AU  - Duan, Zhiyao
AU  - Bocko, Mark
T2  - AES Conference: 2020 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality (August 2020)
M1  - Paper 10502
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21179
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - In this paper, we propose an approach for global HRTF personalization employing subjects’ anthropometric features using spherical harmonics transform (SHT) and convolutional neural network (CNN). Existing methods employ different models for each elevation, which fails to take advantage of the underlying common features of the full set of HRTF’s. Using the HUTUBS HRTF database as our training set, a SHT was used to produce subjects’ personalized HRTF’s for all spatial directions using a single model. The resulting predicted HRTFs have a log-spectral distortion (LSD) level of 3.81 dB in comparison to the SHT reconstructed HRTFs, and 4.74 dB in comparison to the measured HRTFs. The personalized HRTFs show significant improvement upon the finite element acoustic computations of HRTFs provided in the HUTUBS database.
ER  -