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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) generation remains a critical challenge for creating immersive virtual acoustic environments. Current methods suffer from two fundamental limitations: the scarcity of full-band RIR datasets and the inability of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ali Vosoughi , Yongyi Zang , Qihui Yang , Nathan Paek , Randal Leistikow , Chenliang Xu

We propose a mesh-based neural network (MESH2IR) to generate acoustic impulse responses (IRs) for indoor 3D scenes represented using a mesh. The IRs are used to create a high-quality sound experience in interactive applications and audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Anton Ratnarajah , Zhenyu Tang , Rohith Chandrashekar Aralikatti , Dinesh Manocha

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

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

We present a method for improving the quality of synthetic room impulse responses for far-field speech recognition. We bridge the gap between the fidelity of synthetic room impulse responses (RIRs) and the real room impulse responses using…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Anton Ratnarajah , Zhenyu Tang , Dinesh Manocha

Accurate and efficient simulation of room impulse responses is crucial for spatial audio applications. However, existing acoustic ray-tracing tools often operate as black boxes and only output impulse responses (IRs), providing limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yongyi Zang , Qiuqiang Kong

Acoustic reflector localization is an important issue in audio signal processing, with direct applications in spatial audio, scene reconstruction, and source separation. Several methods have recently been proposed to estimate the 3D…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Luca Remaggi , Philip J. B. Jackson , Philip Coleman , Wenwu Wang

We present a new method to capture the acoustic characteristics of real-world rooms using commodity devices, and use the captured characteristics to generate similar sounding sources with virtual models. Given the captured audio and an…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Zhenyu Tang , Nicholas J. Bryan , Dingzeyu Li , Timothy R. Langlois , Dinesh Manocha

Generating audio that is acoustically consistent with a scene is essential for immersive virtual environments. Recent neural acoustic field methods enable spatially continuous sound rendering but remain scene-specific, requiring dense audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Amandine Brunetto

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

In this work, we introduce a novel framework which combines physics and machine learning methods to analyse acoustic signals. Three methods are developed for this task: a Bayesian inference approach for inferring the spectral acoustics…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yongchao Huang , Yuhang He , Hong Ge

Single-channel speech dereverberation aims at extracting a dry speech signal from a recording affected by the acoustic reflections in a room. However, most current deep learning-based approaches for speech dereverberation are not…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Louis Bahrman , Mathieu Fontaine , Jonathan Le Roux , Gaël Richard

Blind room impulse response (RIR) estimation is a core task for capturing and transferring acoustic properties; yet existing methods often suffer from limited modeling capability and degraded performance under unseen conditions. Moreover,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jackie Lin , Jiaqi Su , Nishit Anand , Zeyu Jin , Minje Kim , Paris Smaragdis

We introduce the visual acoustic matching task, in which an audio clip is transformed to sound like it was recorded in a target environment. Given an image of the target environment and a waveform for the source audio, the goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Changan Chen , Ruohan Gao , Paul Calamia , Kristen Grauman

Ray tracing (RT) is instrumental in 6G research in order to generate spatially-consistent and environment-specific channel impulse responses (CIRs). While acquiring accurate scene geometries is now relatively straightforward, determining…

The training of modern speech processing systems often requires a large amount of simulated room impulse response (RIR) data in order to allow the systems to generalize well in real-world, reverberant environments. However, simulating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Yi Luo , Jianwei Yu

We investigate the effects of four strategies for improving the ecological validity of synthetic room impulse response (RIR) datasets for monoaural Speech Enhancement (SE). We implement three features on top of the traditional image source…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Enric Gusó , Joanna Luberadzka , Umut Sayin , Xavier Serra

Room impulse responses (RIRs) are essential for many acoustic signal processing tasks, yet measuring them densely across space is often impractical. In this work, we propose RIR-Former, a grid-free, one-step feed-forward model for RIR…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Shaoheng Xu , Chunyi Sun , Jihui Zhang , Prasanga N. Samarasinghe , Thushara D. Abhayapala