In reply to your original question - I believe there are available data sets for Kemar head measurements - not quite what you asking for but it is supposed to be an "average" head
http://sound.media.mit.edu/resources/KEMAR.html On 24 January 2016 at 20:19, Augustine Leudar <augustineleu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have idea of how hrtfs could be individually measured and could work on > a commercial scale with minimum inconvenience to the public (so they might > actually use it ). Not sure who to talk to about htis though. > > On 24 January 2016 at 19:31, Stefan Schreiber <st...@mail.telepac.pt> > wrote: > >> http://www.blueripplesound.com/hrtf-amber >> >> The IRCAM AKG "Listen" HRTF data contains measured HRTFs from about 50 >>> different people - this must have taken a lot of effort and we're very >>> grateful to the good folk of IRCAM for doing the work and making the >>> results available to the world! What we've done is analyse this data and >>> come up with an 'average' HRTF that is a sensible compromise, using some >>> new work. As it's an average, it wouldn't be perfect for any of the people >>> actually measured, but hopefully not awful for any of them either! It's >>> certainly much better than conventional "panning" techniques. >>> >> >> >> (See also: >> >> http://www.blueripplesound.com/personalized-hrtfs >> ) >> >> We provide "generic" HRTFs models (for instance, our Amber HRTF < >>> http://www.blueripplesound.com/hrtf-amber>) which work well for many >>> people, but even better results can be achieved using personalized HRTF >>> measurements. >>> >> >> >> Could any people, companies or institutions on this list provide access >> to such a practical and < usable > generic HRTF model? >> >> If not: I believe that some essential theses and papers should have been >> done in the academic world, but don't exist anyway. >> >> Richard Furse basically states that a "good" generic HRTF is derived from >> many HRTF measurements (data sets) via some form of averaging, as a >> "sensible compromise". I doubt that this is a trivial process, though... >> >> Best regards, >> >> Stefan >> >> >> P.S.: VR companies will currently have to look into these issues, and to >> find solutions which are practical at least < for most > people. If some >> proposed HRTF data set doesn't fit to an individual listener it should be >> pretty hard to distinguish between front/back sources, for example. (Even >> with head-tracking.) >> >> Don't tell me that I didn't present a paper to prove my point... Instead, >> give me the link to a paper which delivers some kind of optimized generic >> HRTF data set. If such a paper doesn't exist (yet), I don't see any reason >> why something like "Amber HRTF" can't be re-engineered. >> (Amber HRTF itself is derived from IRCAM AKG "Listen" HRTF data, a public >> available list. And even IRCAM should be interested to provide a good >> universal HRTF based on its own and public HRTF research!) >> _______________________________________________ >> Sursound mailing list >> Sursound@music.vt.edu >> https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, >> edit account or options, view archives and so on. >> > > > > -- > www.augustineleudar.com > -- www.augustineleudar.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20160124/b352a6f4/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
