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http://dx.doi.org/10.5050/KSNVE.2014.24.4.282

Building Korean Head-related Transfer Function Database  

Son, Daehyuk (KAIST, Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Park, Youngjin (KAIST, Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Park, Yoonsik (KAIST, Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Jang, Sei-Jin (KETI, Digital Media Center)
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Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering / v.24, no.4, 2014 , pp. 282-288 More about this Journal
Abstract
Three-dimensional multimedia industry such as 3D TV, movie and broadcast has been developed vividly. For generating 3D contents with high quality, virtual auditory display, so called VAD, is being researched to offer more realistic experience to listeners. When people render VAD using headphones or two speakers, head-related transfer function(HRTF) plays a key role. The best solution is measuring all individuals' HRTFs, but it is hard to measure all listeners' HRTFs. To overcome this difficulty, many research groups have tried to construct their own measurement system and to build HRTF databases. However, some of them have not enough subjects or spatial resolution and they are mainly focused on Caucasian. There exists difference between Korean and Caucasian in a view of physical features. In other words, if Koreans hear three-dimensional sound rendered by HRTF database based on Caucasian, performance might be hindered. To verify this possibility and remedy the drawbacks, construction of new HRTF database aimed at Korean is needed. Therefore, our laboratory built HRTF measurement system which can measure HRTF of three-dimensional space with dense spatial resolution. With this system, 55 Korean males and 45 females' HRTFs were measured and Korean HRTF database was built based on these data.
Keywords
Three-dimensional Virtual Sound; Head-related Transfer Function; Database; Anthropometry;
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