Performance Analysis of Binaural Audio Rendering with Reconstructed HRTF under Linear Interpolation and SSH

Xinyao Wang, Jing Wang, Zhaoyu Yan, Min Liu, Kai Qian

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Abstract

Head-related transfer function(HRTF) represents the transfer function from audio source in the spatial field to ear drums of human, which is commonly used for rendering virtual sound sources. The basic measurement method to get high-resolution HRTF is limited for its time-consuming and complicated procedure. Therefore, some reconstructed methods based on low-resolution HRTFs are presented, and the most classical two methods are Surface Spherical Harmonics(SSH) and Linear Interpolation(LI). The main work of this paper is to analyze the rendering performance of HRTF under these two methods. Objective and subjective experiments are conducted on MIT database. Through comparing the Mean Square Error(MSE) and Spectral Distortion(SD) between reconstructed and original spectrum, the objective evaluation shows that the effect of SSH on the shadowed side and backward is not as stable as linear interpolation. Furthermore, subjective evaluation indicates that SSH has a better performance in localization perception with low quality degradation. Meanwhile, the performance related to accuracy, feasibility, expansibility is analyzed comprehensively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICSIDP 2019 - IEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728123455
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2019
Event2019 IEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing, ICSIDP 2019 - Chongqing, China
Duration: 11 Dec 201913 Dec 2019

Publication series

NameICSIDP 2019 - IEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing 2019

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing, ICSIDP 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChongqing
Period11/12/1913/12/19

Keywords

  • Evaluation of rendering performance
  • Feasibility and expansibility analysis
  • Head-related transfer functions(HRTFs)
  • Linear Interpolation
  • Surface Spherical Harmonics decomposition

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