| Grant number: | 14/14630-9 |
| Support type: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |
| Effective date (Start): | December 01, 2014 |
| Effective date (End): | July 31, 2018 |
| Field of knowledge: | Engineering - Electrical Engineering |
| Cooperation agreement: | Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) |
| Principal researcher: | Luiz César Martini |
| Grantee: | Felipe Leonel Grijalva Arévalo |
| Home Institution: | Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação (FEEC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil |
Abstract As auditory augmented reality applications become more important, there is increasing effort in spatial audio research. The spatial audio term refers to a set of techniques that model the anatomy of a person by means of digital filters. When filtering an audio source through these filters, the listener is able to perceive a sound as if it were played at a specific location in space. In the frequency domain, these filters are known as Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTF). A significant problem in spatial audio is the fact that spectral features of HRTFs differ among individuals. If a subject uses another person's HRTFs, there is degradation in auditory perception. Thus, it is necessary to personalize HRTFs. The HRTFs of a subject can be measured experimentally. However, as this measurement is a complex, time consuming and not scalable task, various machine learning techniques have been applied to customize HRTFs. The problem of current techniques is that they do not take into account prior knowledge of the characteristics of HRTFs (e.g. symmetry). Thus, the overall goal of this proposal is to apply machine learning techniques in order to customize HRTFs by incorporating both spatial and frequency prior knowledge of HRTFs. With this aim, we will represent the HRTFs using nonlinear dimensionality reduction techniques (e.g. Isomap) in conjunction with filter bank techniques (e.g. wavelets), that take into account this prior knowledge. Later, as there are few HRTF measurements, due to the difficulty of obtaining them, we aim to merge multiple HRTF databases using transfer learning. Finally, using the merged HRTF database, we will utilize deep learning techniques to predict the HRTFs of an individual from their anatomical characteristics. (AU) | |
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