Proceedings of the 11th Convention of the
European Acoustics Association
Forum Acusticum / EuroNoise 2025


Málaga, Spain
June 23 - 26, 2025





Session: A14.04 Spatial hearing: modeling and applications
Date: Wednesday 25 June 2025
Time: 09:40
Title: Comparing Measures of Information in Head-Related Transfer Functions
Author(s): Nils Meyer-Kahlen
Katharina Pollack
Pedro Lladó
Pages: 3405-3412
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.61782/fa.2025.0228
PDF: https://dael.euracoustics.org/confs/fa2025/data/articles/000228.pdf
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Abstract

The NEMO initiative works towards agreeing on one set of head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) for use across various applications whenever incorporating individual(ized) HRTFs is not feasible. This initiative is grounded on the assumption that listeners benefit from adapting to a set of HRTFs that is different from their own. Naturally, one key step in this process is the selection of the particular set. We hypothesize that the available information in the set influences adaptation speed and/or post-adaptation localization performance and, therefore, is a potential factor in the selection. To test this hypothesis, it is essential to develop measures that quantify the information of an HRTF set. To this end, this contribution presents several potential measures of information content and compares them using multiple HRTF sets.