Multiple exponential sweep method for fast measurement of head-related transfer functions

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 55, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 623-636

  Majdak, Piotr ^a,b   Balazs, Peter ^a,b   Laback, Bernhard ^b  

^a AES ^*

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTIONS (HRTF); MULTIPLE EXPONENTIAL SWEEP METHOD (MESM); OVERLAPPING SWEEPS; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 34547838464     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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