PhD student
Psychoacoustics and Experimental Audiology
Tel. +43 1 51581-2536
Email: katharina.pollack(at)oeaw.ac.at
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Academic Background
Katharina Pollack studied electrical engineering audio engineering at the Technical University and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz and is currently doing her PhD in the field of spatial hearing at the Acoustics Research Institute in Vienna. Her main research interest is making personalised head-related transfer functions more accessible to the public, with the focus on parametric and statistic approaches for pinna shape deformation. She is an active member of the Austrian Acoustics Association, the Austrian section of the Audio Engineering Society and the Austrian section of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering.
Current Research
Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) represent the influence of the anthropometric properties on the incoming sound field. Not only are the interaural time differences (ITDs) and interaural level difference (ILDs) important for the localization ability of humans but also the shape of the outer ear - the pinna - is essential to this process. The state-of-the-art measurement process of HRTFs is well studied and the numeric calculation of the measurement (Ziegelwanger et al., 2015) was a milestone in this field, enabling perceptual valid HRTFs to be processed from 3D Models of the head and pinnae. However, this process relies heavily on high-quality 3D models, with a resolution of 1 mm and the acquisition of such a 3D model has been examined thoroughly within the LocaPhoto project. Katharina Pollack's current research focuses on the investigation in the influence of pinna changes in the HRTFs and parametric pinna modelling. This shall conclude the missing link between the properties of HRTFs and the virtual representation of complex biological structures such as the pinna.
Projects
Publications
Publications
- Pollack K.; Majdak P.; Furtado H. (2023) Application of non-rigid registration to photogrammetrically reconstructed pinna point clouds for the calculation of personalised head-related transfer functions. Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2023. Hamburg S. 1094 - 1098.
- Kreuzer W.; Pollack K.; Majdak P.; Brinkmann F. (2022) Mesh2HRTF / NumCalc: An Open-Source Project to CalculateHRTFs and wave scattering in 3D. Proceedings of the Euroregio/BNAM 2022. Aalborg, Denmark S. 443-452.
- Pollack K.; Kreuzer W.; Majdak P. (2022) Modern Acquisition of Personalised Head - Related Transfer Functions: An Overview. In: Advances in Fundamental and Applied Research on Spatial Audio.. IntechOpen, London S. 25-61.
- Pollack K.; Pausch F.; Majdak P. (2022) Parametric pinna model for a realistic representation of listener-specific pinna geometry. Proceedings: A21, Virtual Acoustics, ICA 2022. Gyeongju S. 168-178.
- Kreuzer W.; Brinkmann F.; Pollack K.; Majdak P. (2022) MeMesh2HRTF/NumCalc: Ein quelloffenes Paket zur Berechnung von HRTFs und akustischer Wellenausbreitung in 3D. Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2022. Stuttgart.
- Pollack K.; Majdak P. (2022) Parametrische Darstellung der Pinnageometrie zur Berechnung von personalisierten Head-Related Transfer Functions. Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2022. Stuttgart.
- Pollack K.; Majdak P. (2022) Nichtrigide Anpassung von Punktwolken zur Berechnung von personalisierten Head-Related Transfer Functions. Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2022. Stuttgart.
- Pollack K.; Majdak P.; Furtado H. (2022) Parameterisation of Pinna Geometry. Dreiländertagung der Medizinischen Physik - digitaler Kongress 2021. SGSMP, ÖGMP, DGMP.
- Pollack K.; Majdak P.; Brinkmann F.; Kreuzer W. (2021) Von Fotos zu personalisierter räumlicher Audiowiedergabe. e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik.
- Pollack K.; Majdak P.; Furtado H. (2021) Evaluation of Pinna Point Cloud Alignment by Means of Non-Rigid registration Algorithms. Audio Engineering Society (AES) 150th convention.
- Pollack K.; Majdak P. (2021) Evaluation of a Parametric Pinna Model for the Calculation of Head-Related Transfer Functions. Immersive and 3D Audio (I3DA) conference.
- Pollack K.; Majdak P.; Furtado H. (2020) A Parametric Pinna Model for the Calculations of Head - Related Transfer Functions. Proceedings of Forum Acusticum 2020, Lyon. S. 1357-1360.
Additional Information
Memberships
Katharina Pollack is member of the AAA, the Vice-President of the Austrian section of the AES and in the board of the Women in Engineering Affinity Group of IEEE.