The Extended SONICOM HRTF Dataset and Spatial Audio Metrics Toolbox
Published in Forum Acusticum 2025, 2025
Recommended citation: Poole, K.C., Meyer, J., Martin, V., Daugintis, R., Marggraf-Turley, N., Webb, J., Pirard, L., La Magna, N., Turvey, O., Picinali, L. (2025). The Extended SONICOM HRTF Dataset and Spatial Audio Metrics Toolbox. Forum Acusticum 2025. https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2025.0864 https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2025.0864
Realistic 3D audio depends on HRTFs, acoustic measurements unique to each listener’s head and ears that are slow and costly to collect. I coordinated the largest open dataset of its kind (400+ measured and 200 synthetic HRTFs with 3D head and ear scans) and built the Spatial Audio Metrics toolbox, now used in the LAP Challenge, graduate teaching and industry spatial audio challenges.