The effect of head movement on HRTF in 3D sound system: Sensitivity analysis on Sphere HRTF

머리움직임이 입체음향 시스템의 머리전달함수에 미치는 영향: 구 머리전달함수의 민감도해석

  • 김선민 (한국과학기술원, 기계공학과) ;
  • 박영진 (한국과학기술원, 기계공학과)
  • Published : 2002.05.01

Abstract

Human's vision is mostly confined to the area in the front and we, humans heavily depend on the sense of hearing to gather information in areas out of our sight. Thus, the virtual reality system consisting of the 3D sound effect gives the user a much better sense of reality than the system without the sound effect. Virtual 3D sound technology has mainly been researched with binaural system. The conventional binaural sound systems reproduce the desired sound at two arbitrary points using two channels in 3-D space. Head movement of listener might be change the nominal acoustic transfer function and deteriorate the performance of 3D sound system based on loudspeakers that needs a crosstalk canceller. In this paper, low kinds of sensitivity functions of sphere HRTF are derived to investigate the effect of head movement on HRTF in 3D sound system. Changes of HRTF caused by rotational and translational motion of head are obtained as we calculate the derivatives of HRTF with respect to angle and distance.

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