Creating the Sydney York morphological and acoustic recordings of ears database

TY - JOUR

T1 - Creating the Sydney York morphological and acoustic recordings of ears database

AU - Jin, C. T.

AU - Guillon, P.

AU - Epain, N.

AU - Zolfaghari, R.

AU - van Schaik, A.

AU - Tew, A. I.

AU - Hetherington, C.

AU - Thorpe, J.

PY - 2014/1

Y1 - 2014/1

N2 - 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 61 listeners (48 male/13 female), multiple high-resolution surface mesh models (upper torso, head and ears) for these listeners obtained from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, and the corresponding 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 61 listeners with the listeners’ corresponding simulated HRIR data generated using the FM-BEM.

AB - 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 61 listeners (48 male/13 female), multiple high-resolution surface mesh models (upper torso, head and ears) for these listeners obtained from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, and the corresponding 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 61 listeners with the listeners’ corresponding simulated HRIR data generated using the FM-BEM.

KW - Head-related transfer function

KW - 3D audio

KW - morphological data

KW - fast multipole boundary element method

KW - 3D mesh models

KW - virtual auditory space

U2 - 10.1109/TMM.2013.2282134

DO - 10.1109/TMM.2013.2282134

M3 - Article

SN - 1520-9210

VL - 16

SP - 37

EP - 46

JO - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

JF - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

IS - 1

M1 - 6600896

ER -