Simulation of the transfer function for a head-and-torso model over the entire audible frequency range

Journal of Computational Acoustics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 429-448

  Huttunen, Tomi ^a   Seppälä, Eira T ^b   Kirkeby, Ole ^b   Kärkkäinen, Asta ^b   Kärkkäinen, Leo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and torso model; HRTF; Simulation; UWVF model

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549092251     PISSN: 0218396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218396X07003469     Document Type: Conference Paper

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