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This paper focuses on room fingerprinting, a task involving the analysis of an audio recording to determine the specific volume and shape of the room in which it was captured. While it is relatively straightforward to determine the basic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Jacob Bitterman , Daniel Levi , Hilel Hagai Diamandi , Sharon Gannot , Tal Rosenwein

State-of-the-art deep-learning-based voice activity detectors (VADs) are often trained with anechoic data. However, real acoustic environments are generally reverberant, which causes the performance to significantly deteriorate. To mitigate…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Amir Ivry , Israel Cohen , Baruch Berdugo

In this paper we introduce StoRIR - a stochastic room impulse response generation method dedicated to audio data augmentation in machine learning applications. This technique, in contrary to geometrical methods like image-source or ray…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Piotr Masztalski , Mateusz Matuszewski , Karol Piaskowski , Michał Romaniuk

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) on multi-talker recordings is challenging. Current methods using 3D spatial data from multi-channel audio and visual cues focus mainly on direct waves from the target speaker, overlooking reflection wave…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Yiwen Shao , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

Smart glasses are increasingly recognized as a key medium for augmented reality, offering a hands-free platform with integrated microphones and non-ear-occluding loudspeakers to seamlessly mix virtual sound sources into the real-world…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Thomas Deppisch , Nils Meyer-Kahlen , Sebastià V. Amengual Garí

Data availability is essential in the development of acoustic signal processing algorithms, especially when it comes to data-driven approaches that demand large and diverse training datasets. For this reason, an increasing number of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Stefano Damiano , Kathleen MacWilliam , Valerio Lorenzoni , Thomas Dietzen , Toon van Waterschoot

The room impulse response (RIR) encodes, among others, information about the distance of an acoustic source from the sensors. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to be able to extract that information for acoustic distance…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Tobias Gburrek , Adrian Meise , Joerg Schmalenstroeer , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Room acoustics measurements are used in many areas of audio research, from physical acoustics modelling and speech enhancement to virtual reality applications. This paper documents the technical specifications and choices made in the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Thomas McKenzie , Leo McCormack , Christoph Hold

Changes in room acoustics, such as modifications to surface absorption or the insertion of a scattering object, significantly impact measured room impulse responses (RIRs). These changes can affect the performance of systems used in echo…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Karolina Prawda

We present ReverbFX, a new room impulse response (RIR) dataset designed for singing voice dereverberation research. Unlike existing datasets based on real recorded RIRs, ReverbFX features a diverse collection of RIRs captured from various…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Julius Richter , Till Svajda , Timo Gerkmann

Room impulse responses (RIRs) are fundamental to audio data augmentation, acoustic signal processing, and immersive audio rendering. While geometric simulators such as the image source method (ISM) can efficiently generate early…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Zeyu Xu , Andreas Brendel , Albert G. Prinn , Emanuël A. P. Habets

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 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

Recent years have seen the increasing need of location awareness by mobile applications. This paper presents a room-level indoor localization approach based on the measured room's echos in response to a two-millisecond single-tone inaudible…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Qun Song , Chaojie Gu , Rui Tan

Room impulse response estimation is essential for tasks like speech dereverberation, which improves automatic speech recognition. Most existing methods rely on either statistical signal processing or deep neural networks designed to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Louis Lalay , Mathieu Fontaine , Roland Badeau

The channel impulse response (CIR) obtained from the channel estimation step of various wireless systems is a widely used source of information in wireless sensing. Breathing rate is one of the important vital signs that can be retrieved…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Sitian Li , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

Room Impulse Responses (RIRs) accurately characterize acoustic properties of indoor environments and play a crucial role in applications such as speech enhancement, speech recognition, and audio rendering in augmented reality (AR) and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Chunxi Wang , Maoshen Jia , Wenyu Jin

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

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

Room Impulse Responses estimation is a fundamental problem in spatial audio processing and speech enhancement. In this paper, we build upon our previously introduced diffusion-based inpainting framework for Room Impulse Response…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sagi Della Torre , Mirco Pezzoli , Fabio Antonacci , Sharon Gannot