---
title: "A High Resolution and Full-Spherical Head-Related Transfer Function Database for Different Head-Above-Torso Orientations"
authors: ["Fabian Brinkmann", "Alexander Lindau", "Stefan Weinzerl", "Steven van de Par", "Markus Müller-Trapet", "Rob Opdam", "Michael Vorländer"]
year: 2017
venue: "Journal of the Audio Engineering Society"
arxiv: null
doi: "10.17743/jaes.2017.0033"
source: "https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2017.0033"
topics: [hrtf, measurement]
seed_rank: 1757
seed_batch: "audio-harvest-2026-09-09"
reviewed: "2026-09-09"
pool: "realtime"
relevance_score: 9
lineage: hrtf-spatial-audio
cites:
  - title: "HRTF measurements of a KEMAR"
    url: "https://doi.org/10.1121/1.412407"
    year: 1995
    arxiv: null
    doi: "10.1121/1.412407"
  - title: "The CIPIC HRTF database"
    url: "https://doi.org/10.1109/aspaa.2001.969552"
    year: 2001
    arxiv: null
    doi: "10.1109/aspaa.2001.969552"
see:
  - "1675-hrtf-measurements-of-a-kemar"
  - "1684-the-cipic-hrtf-database"
  - "1697-measurement-of-head-related-transfer-functions-a-review"
---

# A High Resolution and Full-Spherical Head-Related Transfer Function Database for Different Head-Above-Torso Orientations

## One-sentence takeaway

FABIAN: full-sphere HRTF database across *head-above-torso* orientations — Brinkmann/Lindau/Weinzierl et al. JAES 2017.

## Why it matters here

Players look around; the torso doesn't always follow. FABIAN is the measured set for that extra degree of freedom (TU Berlin dummy). Anoptic seated VR vs full-body: this vs CIPIC. Harvest measurement.

## Key ideas

- **Head-above-torso orientations.** Not only yaw of a rigid dummy.
- **Full-spherical grid.** High resolution.
- **JAES 2017.** DOI 10.17743/jaes.2017.0033.
- **Measured dummy (FABIAN).** Complements KEMAR/SADIE/HUTUBS.

## Caveats

Dummy, not individual subjects (that's HUTUBS/SONICOM). Far-field. Headphone IR still needed. Not a renderer.

## Links

- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2017.0033