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Rendering immersive spatial audio in virtual reality (VR) and video games demands a fast and accurate generation of room impulse responses (RIRs) to recreate auditory environments plausibly. However, the conventional methods for simulating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Jackie Lin , Georg Götz , Sebastian J. Schlecht

A modern graphics processing unit (GPU) is able to perform massively parallel scientific computations at low cost. We extend our implementation of the checkerboard algorithm for the two dimensional Ising model [T. Preis et al., J. Comp.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-07-22 Benjamin Block , Peter Virnau , Tobias Preis

Accurate estimation of Room Impulse Response (RIR), which captures an environment's acoustic properties, is important for speech processing and AR/VR applications. We propose AV-RIR, a novel multi-modal multi-task learning approach to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Anton Ratnarajah , Sreyan Ghosh , Sonal Kumar , Purva Chiniya , Dinesh Manocha

Processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures have demonstrated great potential in accelerating numerous deep learning tasks. Particularly, resistive random-access memory (RRAM) devices provide a promising hardware substrate to build PIM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Weidong Cao , Yilong Zhao , Adith Boloor , Yinhe Han , Xuan Zhang , Li Jiang

We investigate the impact of more realistic room simulation for training far-field keyword spotting systems without fine-tuning on in-domain data. To this end, we study the impact of incorporating the following factors in the room impulse…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Eric Bezzam , Robin Scheibler , Cyril Cadoux , Thibault Gisselbrecht

The image model method has been widely used to simulate room impulse responses and the endeavor to adapt this method to different applications has also piqued great interest over the last few decades. This paper attempts to extend the image…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Chao Pan , Lei Zhang , Yilong Lu , Jilu Jin , Lin Qiu , Jingdong Chen , Jacob Benesty

The ability to accurately estimate room impulse responses (RIRs) is integral to many applications of spatial audio processing. Regrettably, estimating the RIR using ambient signals, such as speech or music, remains a challenging problem due…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 David Sundström , Anton Björkman , Andreas Jakobsson , Filip Elvander

We propose a novel approach for blind room impulse response (RIR) estimation systems in the context of a downstream application scenario, far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR). We first draw the connection between improved RIR…

The generation of room impulse responses (RIRs) using deep neural networks has attracted growing research interest due to its applications in virtual and augmented reality, audio postproduction, and related fields. Most existing approaches…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Silvia Arellano , Chunghsin Yeh , Gautam Bhattacharya , Daniel Arteaga

We propose a multimodal deep learning model for VR auralization that generates spatial room impulse responses (SRIRs) in real time to reconstruct scene-specific auditory perception. Employing SRIRs as the output reduces computational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Zhiyu Li , Xinwen Yue , Shenghui Zhao , Jing Wang

The estimation of room impulse responses (RIRs) between static loudspeaker and microphone locations can be done using a number of well-established measurement and inference procedures. While these procedures assume a time-invariant acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Kathleen MacWilliam , Thomas Dietzen , Randall Ali , Toon van Waterschoot

Geometrical acoustics is well suited for simulating room reverberation in interactive real-time applications. While the image source model (ISM) is exceptionally fast, the restriction to specular reflections impacts its perceptual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Stephan D. Ewert , Nico Gößling , Oliver Buttler , Steven van de Par , Hongmei Hu

Room impulse response (RIR) functions capture how the surrounding physical environment transforms the sounds heard by a listener, with implications for various applications in AR, VR, and robotics. Whereas traditional methods to estimate…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Sagnik Majumder , Changan Chen , Ziad Al-Halah , Kristen Grauman

Room acoustics analysis plays a central role in architectural design, audio engineering, speech intelligibility assessment, and hearing research. Despite the availability of standardized metrics such as reverberation time, clarity, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Mandip Goswami

In the context of building acoustics and the acoustic diagnosis of an existing room, this paper introduces and investigates a new approach to estimate mean absorption coefficients solely from a room impulse response (RIR). This inverse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Cédric Foy , Antoine Deleforge , Diego Di Carlo

Prediction of room impulse responses (RIRs) is essential for room acoustics, spatial audio, and immersive applications, yet conventional simulations and measurements remain computationally expensive and time-consuming. This work proposes a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Imran Muhammad , Gerald Schuller

We introduce a computationally efficient and tunable feedback delay network (FDN) architecture for real-time room impulse response (RIR) rendering that addresses the computational and latency challenges inherent in traditional convolution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Armin Gerami , Ramani Duraiswami

A new impulse response (IR) dataset called "MeshRIR" is introduced. Currently available datasets usually include IRs at an array of microphones from several source positions under various room conditions, which are basically designed for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Shoichi Koyama , Tomoya Nishida , Keisuke Kimura , Takumi Abe , Natsuki Ueno , Jesper Brunnström

We provide a preliminary study on utilizing GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) to accelerate computation for three simulation optimization tasks with either first-order or second-order algorithms. Compared to the implementation using only CPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jinghai He , Haoyu Liu , Yuhang Wu , Zeyu Zheng , Tingyu Zhu

Measuring room impulse responses (RIRs) at multiple spatial points is a time-consuming task, while simulations require detailed knowledge of the room's acoustic environment. In prior work, we proposed a method for estimating the early part…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Kathleen MacWilliam , Thomas Dietzen , Toon van Waterschoot