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A study on the simplification of HRTF within low frequency region

저역 주파수 영역에서 HRTF의 간략화에 관한 연구

  • 이채봉 (동서대학교 전자공학과)
  • Received : 2010.10.05
  • Accepted : 2010.12.10
  • Published : 2010.12.31
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Abstract

In this study, we investigated the effect of the simplification for low frequency region in Head-Related Transfer Function(HRTF) on the sound localization. For this purpose, HRTF was measured and analyzed. The result in the standard deviation of HRTF showed that the directional dependence of low frequency was smaller than that of high frequency region, which means the possibility of simplification in the low frequency region. Simplification was performed by flattening of the low frequency amplitude characteristics with the insertion of the high-pass filter, whose cutoff frequency is given by boundary frequency. Auditory experiments were performed to evaluate the simplified HRTF. The result showed that direction perception was not influenced by the simplification of the frequency characteristics of HRTF for the error of sound localization. The rate of confusion for the front and back was not affected by the simplification of the frequency characteristics within 1kHz of HRTF. Finally, we made it clear that the sound localization was not affected by the simplification of frequency characteristics of HRTF within 1kHz. The result is expected to be utilized to reduce the size of speech information with no deterioration of the directional characteristics of the speech signal.

본 연구에서는 머리전달함수(Head-Related Transfer Function : HRTF) 저역 주파수 영역에서의 간략화가 음상정위에 미치는 영향에 관하여 검토하였다. 이를 위해 HRTF를 측정하였으며 측정한 HRTF에 대하여 분석한 결과, HRTF 주파수 특성의 표준편차를 보면, 저역의 주파수 특성은 고역에 비하여 방향 의존성이 작음이 나타났다. 이것은 저역의 주파수 영역에서 간략화의 가능성을 나타낸다. 간략화는 경계 주파수를 차단 주파수로 하는 고역통과 필터를 삽입하여 저역의 주파수 진폭특성을 평탄하게 함으로서 간략화를 하였다. 간략화를 한 HRTF를 평가하기 위하여 청취실험을 하였다. 청취실험의 결과, 정위오차에 대해서는 HRTF의 주파수 특성을 간략화 하여도 방향 지각에 영향이 없다는 것이 나타났다. 전후 혼란율에 대해서는 HRTF의 1kHz 이하의 주파수 특성을 간략화 하여도 영향이 없음이 나타났다. 최종적으로는 HRTF의 1kHz 이하의 주파수 특성에 본 연구의 간략화를 적용하여도 음상정위에 영향을 미치지 않는다는 것을 명확히 하였다. 본 연구는 음성이 가진 방향성 속성을 훼손하지 않으면서 음성정보의 크기를 줄이는 방법으로도 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

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