{"id":3805,"date":"2025-12-03T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:04:12","slug":"the-gras-innovation-award-the-game-changer-2025-has-been-awarded-to-ihta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/the-gras-innovation-award-the-game-changer-2025-has-been-awarded-to-ihta\/","title":{"rendered":"The GRAS Innovation Award \u2013 The Game-Changer 2025 \u2013 has been awarded to IHTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to announce that we received the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grasacoustics.com\/gras-innovation-award\/winners-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GRAS Award \u2013 The Game-Changer 2025<\/a> <\/strong>by GRAS Sound and Vibration. The project: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grasacoustics.com\/gras-innovation-award\/game-changer-winner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A High-Resolution Head-Related Transfer Function Data Set and 3D-Scan of KEMAR<\/a> by the authors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akustik.rwth-aachen.de\/cms\/institut-fuer-hoertechnik-und-akustik\/das-institut\/team\/medak-team\/~ndgn\/hark-braren\/?allou=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hark Braren<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akustik.rwth-aachen.de\/cms\/institut-fuer-hoertechnik-und-akustik\/das-institut\/team\/medak-team\/~ebja\/janina-fels\/?allou=1&amp;lidx=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Janina Fels<\/a> won the award in the category &#8222;the Game-Changer&#8220;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3814\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3814\" class=\"wp-image-3814 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/files\/2025\/12\/LinkedIn_Award-winner_RWTH-Aachen-University-1024x536.png\" alt=\"GRAS Award 2025\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/files\/2025\/12\/LinkedIn_Award-winner_RWTH-Aachen-University-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/files\/2025\/12\/LinkedIn_Award-winner_RWTH-Aachen-University-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/files\/2025\/12\/LinkedIn_Award-winner_RWTH-Aachen-University-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/files\/2025\/12\/LinkedIn_Award-winner_RWTH-Aachen-University.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GRAS Award Winner &#8211; The Game Changer 2025, Hark Braren and Janina Fels, RWTH Aachen University<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The RWTH team created an <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18154\/RWTH-2020-11307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open, high-resolution HRTF dataset using the GRAS KEMAR Head and Torso Simulator<\/a> \u2014 bridging physical measurement and acoustic simulation. Their work sets a new benchmark for spatial audio realism and paves the way for future breakthroughs in 3D sound and headphone design.<\/p>\n<p>The innovation speaks directly to our core mission: enabling the highest quality in acoustic measurement and supporting industry breakthroughs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The dataset can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18154\/RWTH-2020-11307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18154\/RWTH-2020-11307<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We would like to express our sincere thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grasacoustics.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GRAS Sound &amp; Vibration<\/a> for this special award!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to announce that we received the GRAS Award \u2013 The Game-Changer 2025 by GRAS Sound and Vibration. The project: A High-Resolution Head-Related Transfer Function Data Set and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,4,6,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-binaural","category-hta","category-ihta","category-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3821,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/3821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/akustik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}