Numerical study on source-distance dependency of head-related transfer functions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3253-3261

  Otani, Makoto ^a,c   Hirahara, Tatsuya ^a   Ise, Shiro ^b  

^a TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF INCIDENCES; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; DUMMY HEADS; ELEMENT METHODS; HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; HORIZONTAL PLANES; NUMERICAL STUDIES; SAGITTAL PLANES; SOURCE POSITIONS; SPECTRAL FEATURES;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINES; SAILING VESSELS; TOMOGRAPHY;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EAR; HEAD; HEARING ACUITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR; HEAD; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 65549154412     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3111860     Document Type: Article

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