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Implicit HRTF Modeling Using Temporal Convolutional Networks


Abstract:

Estimation of accurate head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) is crucial to achieve realistic binaural acoustic experiences. HRTFs depend on source/listener locations an...Show More

Abstract:

Estimation of accurate head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) is crucial to achieve realistic binaural acoustic experiences. HRTFs depend on source/listener locations and are therefore expensive and cumbersome to measure; traditional approaches require listener-dependent measurements of HRTFs at thousands of distinct spatial directions in an anechoic chamber. In this work, we present a data-driven approach to learn HRTFs implicitly with a neural network that achieves state of the art results compared to traditional approaches but relies on a much simpler data capture that can be performed in arbitrary, non-anechoic rooms. Despite that simpler and less acoustically ideal data capture, our deep learning based approach learns HRTF of high quality. We show in a perceptual study that the produced binaural audio is ranked on par with traditional DSP approaches by humans and illustrate that interaural time differences (ITDs), interaural level differences (ILDs) and spectral clues are accurately estimated.
Date of Conference: 06-11 June 2021
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 13 May 2021
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Conference Location: Toronto, ON, Canada

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