Numerical calculation of the head-related transfer functions with Chinese dummy head

Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) plays an important role in the virtual auditory technology. Since directly measuring the HRTF is rather complicated and time-consuming, especially with individual person to obtain personalized HRTFs, many researches have focused on predicting the HRTF by numerical methods such as the boundary element method (BEM). In this study, we present our work on numerical calculation of the HRTFs with a standard Chinese dummy head, BHead210. The BEM-based method is introduced and the calculated HRTFs are compared to the measured HRTFs, as well as the well-known KEMAR HRTFs. The distinguished differences in the HRTFs between BHead210 and KEMAR are given.