Calculation of head-related transfer functions for arbitrary field points using spherical harmonics decomposition

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 72-82

  Pollow, Martin ^a   Nguyen, Khoa Van ^b,c   Warusfel, Olivier ^b   Carpentier, Thibaut ^b   Müller Trapet, Markus ^a   Vorländer, Michael ^a   Noisternig, Markus ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

^c Sonic Emotion Labs   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; ACOUSTIC RADIATION; ARBITRARY POSITIONS; BINAURAL SYNTHESIS; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; DATA SETS; DISTANT SOURCE; DUMMY HEAD; EXTRAPOLATION METHODS; FIELD POINTS; HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION; MEASUREMENT DATA; MEASUREMENT POINTS; NEAR-FIELD; NEAR-FIELD MEASUREMENT; REGULARIZATION METHODS; SPECTRAL DOMAINS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; SPHERICAL WAVES; TRANSFER PATHS;

EXTRAPOLATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SAILING VESSELS; SPHERES;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 84855323175     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918493     Document Type: Article

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