Dynamic measurement of room impulse responses using a moving microphone.

A technique for the recording of large sets of room impulse responses or head-related transfer functions is presented. The technique uses a microphone moving with constant speed. Given a setup (e.g., length of the room impulse response), a careful choice of the recording parameters (excitation signal, speed of movement) leads to the reconstruction of all impulse responses along the trajectory. In the case of a moving microphone along a circle, the maximal angular speed is given as a function of the length of the impulse response, its maximal temporal frequency, the speed of sound propagation, and the radius of the circle. As a result of the presented algorithm, head-related transfer functions sampled at 44.1 kHz can be measured at all angular positions along the horizontal plane in less than 1 s. The presented theory is compared with a real system implementation using a precision moving microphone holder. The practical setup is discussed together with its limitations.

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