Creating the Sydney York morphological and acoustic recordings of ears database

Craig Jin, Pierre Guillon, Reza Zolfaghari, Nicolas Epain, Andre van Schaik, Anthony I. Tew, Carl Hetherington, Jonathan Thorpe

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Abstract

This paper introduces the process for creating the Sydney York Morphological and Acoustic Recordings of Ears (SYMARE) database. The SYMARE database supports research exploring the relationship between the morphology of human outer ears and their acoustic filtering properties - a relationship that is
viewed by many as holding the key to human spatial hearing and the future of 3D personal audio. The SYMARE database is comprised of acoustically measured head-related impulse responses for 60 listeners, multiple high-resolution surface
mesh models (upper torso, head and ears) for these listeners obtained from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, and the corresonding simulated HRIR data for these listeners generated using the Fast Multipole Boundary Element Method (FM-BEM). In this work, we compare acoustically measured HRIR data for ten listeners with the listeners’ corresponding simulated HRIR data generated using the FM-BEM.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - 9 Jul 2012
EventIEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo - Melbourne, Australia
Duration: 9 Jul 201213 Jul 2012

Conference

ConferenceIEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne
Period9/07/1213/07/12

Keywords

  • head-related transfer function, 3D audio

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