IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

HRTF Measurement by Means of Unsupervised Head Movements With Respect to a Single Fixed Speaker

  • Jonas Reijniers,
  • Bart Partoens,
  • Jan Steckel,
  • Herbert Peremans

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2994932
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8
pp. 92287 – 92300

Abstract

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In a standard state-of-the-art measurement the head-related transfer function (HRTF) is obtained in an anechoic room with an elaborate setup involving multiple calibrated loudspeakers. In search for a simplified method that would open up the possibility for an HRTF measurement in a home environment, it has been suggested that this setup could be replaced with one with a single, fixed loudspeaker. In such a setup, the subject samples different directions by moving the head with respect to this loudspeaker, while the head movements are tracked in some way. In this paper, the feasibility of such an approach is studied. To this end, the HRTF is measured in an unmodified (non-anechoic) room by means of a single external speaker and a high resolution head tracking system. The differences between the dynamically obtained HRTF and the standard static HRTF are investigated, and are shown to be mostly due to variable torso reflections.

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