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Room Impulse Responses (RIRs) enable realistic acoustic simulation, with applications ranging from multimedia production to speech data augmentation. However, acquiring high-quality real-world RIRs is labor-intensive, and data scarcity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Kirak Kim , Sungyoung Kim

This paper presents BUT ReverbDB - a dataset of real room impulse responses (RIR), background noises and re-transmitted speech data. The retransmitted data includes LibriSpeech test-clean, 2000 HUB5 English evaluation and part of 2010 NIST…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Igor Szoke , Miroslav Skacel , Ladislav Mosner , Jakub Paliesek , Jan "Honza" Cernocky

Modern neural-network-based speech processing systems are typically required to be robust against reverberation, and the training of such systems thus needs a large amount of reverberant data. During the training of the systems, on-the-fly…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yi Luo , Rongzhi Gu

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

Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) have fundamental applications for realistic rendering in immersive audio scenarios. However, they are strongly subject-dependent as they vary considerably depending on the shape of the ears, head and…

Sound propagation is the process by which sound energy travels through a medium, such as air, to the surrounding environment as sound waves. The room impulse response (RIR) describes this process and is influenced by the positions of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Anton Jeran Ratnarajah

We present an algorithm that fully reverses the shoebox image source method (ISM), a popular and widely used room impulse response (RIR) simulator for cuboid rooms introduced by Allen and Berkley in 1979. More precisely, given a discrete…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tom Sprunck , Antoine Deleforge , Yannick Privat , Cédric Foy

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

This study reports on a head related impulse response (HRIR) application to an auditory spatial brain-computer interface (BCI) speller paradigm. Six experienced and five BCI-naive users participated in an experimental spelling set up based…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-20 Chisaki Nakaizumi , Toshie Matsui , Koichi Mori , Shoji Makino , Tomasz M. Rutkowski

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 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 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

The Image Source Method (ISM) is one of the most employed techniques to calculate acoustic Room Impulse Responses (RIRs), however, its computational complexity grows fast with the reverberation time of the room and its computation time can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 David Diaz-Guerra , Antonio Miguel , Jose R. Beltran

The aim of this study is to provide a comprehensive test of head related impulse response (HRIR) for an auditory spatial speller brain-computer interface (BCI) paradigm. The study is conducted with six users in an experimental set up based…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-12-17 Chisaki Nakaizumi , Koichi Mori , Toshie Matsui , Shoji Makino , Tomasz M. Rutkowski

Spherical Harmonics ROOM), an open-source Python library for room acoustics simulation using Ambisonics, available at https://github.com/Yhonatangayer/shroom and installable via \texttt{pip install pyshroom}. \textbf{shroom} projects…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Yhonatan Gayer

This paper presents UPV_RIR_DB, a structured database of measured room impulse responses (RIRs) designed to provide acoustic data with explicit spatial metadata and traceable acquisition parameters. The dataset currently contains 166…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Jesús García-Gamborino , Laura Fuster , Daniel de la Prida , Luis A. Azpicueta-Ruiz , Gema Piñero

In this paper, we present HOMULA-RIR, a dataset of room impulse responses (RIRs) acquired using both higher-order microphones (HOMs) and a uniform linear array (ULA), in order to model a remote attendance teleconferencing scenario.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-22 Federico Miotello , Paolo Ostan , Mirco Pezzoli , Luca Comanducci , Alberto Bernardini , Fabio Antonacci , Augusto Sarti

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

Room impulse response (RIR), which measures the sound propagation within an environment, is critical for synthesizing high-fidelity audio for a given environment. Some prior work has proposed representing RIR as a neural field function of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Susan Liang , Chao Huang , Yapeng Tian , Anurag Kumar , Chenliang Xu

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