HRTF Individualization: A Survey

Guezenoc, Corentin; Seguier, Renaud

doi:10.48550/arxiv.2003.06183

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“…Using generic HRTFs is the main source of errors in many applications. Existing approaches to individualize HRTFs can be grouped into four main categories [15], as discussed in this section.…”

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Individualizing Head-Related Transfer Functions for Binaural Acoustic Applications

Zandi¹,

El-Mohandes²,

Zheng³

2022

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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 binaural acoustic applications such as sound localization and 3D sound spatialization. Unfortunately, conventional approaches for HRTF estimation rely on specialized devices or lengthy measurement processes. This work proposes a novel lightweight method for HRTF individualization that can be implemented using commercial-off-the-shelf components and performed by average users in home settings. The proposed method has two key components: a generative neural network model that can be individualized to predict HRTFs of new subjects from sparse measurements, and a lightweight measurement procedure that collects HRTF data from spatial locations. Extensive experiments using a public dataset and in house measurement data from 10 subjects of different ages and genders, show that the individualized models significantly outperform a baseline model in the accuracy of predicted HRTFs. To further demonstrate the advantages of individualized HRTFs, we implement two prototype applications for binaural localization and acoustic spatialization. We find that the performance of a localization model is improved by 15 • after trained with individualized HRTFs. Furthermore, in hearing tests, the success rate of correctly identifying the azimuth direction of incoming sounds increases by 183% after individualization.

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Section: Related Work 21 Hrtf Individualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%