Approximating the head-related transfer function using simple geometric models of the head and torso

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 112, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2053-2064

  Algazi, V Ralph ^a   Duda, Richard O ^a   Duraiswami, Ramani ^b   Gumerov, Nail A ^b   Tang, Zhihui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ATTENUATION; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; REFLECTION;

TORSO-SHADOW CONES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; BIOLOGY;

ACOUSTICS; BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; EXTERNAL EAR; GEOMETRY; HEAD; HEARING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; TRUNK; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACOUSTICS; HEAD; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036840525     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1508780     Document Type: Article

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