The 2024 Listener Acoustic Personalization Challenge

With enthusiasm, we announce the call for interest in the 1st Listener Acoustic Personalization Challenge (LAP 2024). The challenge acknowledges the diverse expertise within the signal processing community to facilitate cross-pollination of ideas and foster collaborative innovation in the audio domain, but not limited to.

Personalized Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) have been shown to enhance auditory localization and immersion in mixed realities. However, relevant issues, such as the accurate acquisition of user-specific anatomical data, efficient simulation algorithms, and effective user validation, do not converge into a common and internationally recognized benchmark for evaluating HRTFs.

The LAP Challenge endeavors to provide a platform where researchers can explore these challenges, advance state-of-the-art, and contribute to developing standardized metrics for personalized spatial audio. 

The 2024 inaugural edition will concentrate on two fundamental aspects of HRTF: spatial sampling and interpolation. Teams are challenged to submit solutions that address one or both tasks.

• Task 1. HRTF harmonization and normalization for merging different HRTF datasets.
• Task 2. HRTF spatial up-sampling for obtaining a high-spatial-resolution HRTF from a very low number of directions.

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Detailed descriptions and requirements for the task will be announced soon.

- The LAP Challenge Team

The 2024 Listener Acoustic Personalization Challenge is sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society.