Abstract
Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) describe the acoustical transmission process from a point sound source to two ears in the free field. They are vital to the researches of binaural hearing and virtual auditory display. Measurement is the most important approach to obtain HRTFs, but it is time-consuming. To accurate HRTF measurement, a computer-controlling measurement system is designed. The system consists of multiple sound sources at different elevations with a finest interval of 5° and a horizontal turntable with an azimuthal resolution of 0.1°. It is able to work in non-anechoic environment and suitable for both mannequin and human subject measurement. A practical example indicates that the system allows for measuring far-field HRTFs at 493 source directions within half an hour. By using the system, a super high directional resolution HRTF database for KEMAR mannequin is established. The database includes 3889 pairs of head-related impulse responses (HRIRs, the time domain counterpart of HRTFs) at distance of 1.0 m, elevation interval of 5° (from -45° to 90° ), and azimuthal interval of 2.5°. Each HRIR is 1024-point length at 96 kHz sampling frequency and 24-bit quantization. The database is applicable to the research on binaural hearing and virtual auditory display.
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