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In this paper, we describe how to efficiently implement an acoustic room simulator to generate large-scale simulated data for training deep neural networks. Even though Google Room Simulator in [1] was shown to be quite effective in…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Chanwoo Kim , Ehsan Variani , Arun Narayanan , Michiel Bacchiani

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

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

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

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 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

Data-driven acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) methods, predominantly trained on synthetic or constrained real-world datasets, encounter performance declines in unseen echo scenarios, especially in real environments where echo paths are not…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Fei Zhao , Shulin He , Xueliang Zhang

Modern neural network-based speech processing systems usually need to have reverberation resistance, so the training of such systems requires a large amount of reverberation data. In the process of system training, it is now more inclined…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Dong Yang

Ensuring performance robustness for a variety of situations that can occur in real-world environments is one of the challenging tasks in sound event classification. One of the unpredictable and detrimental factors in performance, especially…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Jaejun Lee , Donmoon Lee , Hyeong-Seok Choi , Kyogu Lee

We present a novel approach to improve the performance of learning-based speech dereverberation using accurate synthetic datasets. Our approach is designed to recover the reverb-free signal from a reverberant speech signal. We show that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Rohith Aralikatti , Zhenyu Tang , Dinesh Manocha

This paper presents Rec-RIR for monaural blind room impulse response (RIR) identification. Rec-RIR is developed based on the convolutive transfer function (CTF) approximation, which models reverberation effect within narrow-band filter…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Pengyu Wang , Xiaofei Li

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

In mixed reality applications, a realistic acoustic experience in spatial environments is as crucial as the visual experience for achieving true immersion. Despite recent advances in neural approaches for Room Impulse Response (RIR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xiulong Liu , Anurag Kumar , Paul Calamia , Sebastia V. Amengual , Calvin Murdock , Ishwarya Ananthabhotla , Philip Robinson , Eli Shlizerman , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu , Ruohan Gao

Neural networks have become ubiquitous in audio effects modelling, especially for guitar amplifiers and distortion pedals. One limitation of such models is that the sample rate of the training data is implicitly encoded in the model weights…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Alistair Carson , Vesa Välimäki , Alec Wright , Stefan Bilbao

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

Artificial reverberation (AR) models play a central role in various audio applications. Therefore, estimating the AR model parameters (ARPs) of a reference reverberation is a crucial task. Although a few recent deep-learning-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Sungho Lee , Hyeong-Seok Choi , Kyogu Lee

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

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

A simple procedure for the design of recursive digital filters with an infinite impulse response (IIR) and non-recursive digital filters with a finite impulse response (FIR) is described. The fixed-lag smoothing filters are designed to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Hugh Lachlan Kennedy

MR Fingerprinting is a novel quantitative MR technique that could simultaneously provide multiple tissue property maps. When optimizing MRF scans, modeling undersampling errors and field imperfections in cost functions will make the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Siyuan Hu , Stephen Jordan , Rasim Boyacioglu , Ignacio Rozada , Matthias Troyer , Mark Griswold , Debra McGivney , Dan Ma