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We present AudioMiXR, an augmented reality (AR) interface intended to assess how users manipulate virtual audio objects situated in their physical space using six degrees of freedom (6DoF) deployed on a head-mounted display (Apple Vision…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Brandon Woodard , Margarita Geleta , Joseph J. LaViola , Andrea Fanelli , Rhonda Wilson

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

Acoustic environment characterization opens doors for sound reproduction innovations, smart EQing, speech enhancement, hearing aids, and forensics. Reverberation time, clarity, and direct-to-reverberant ratio are acoustic parameters that…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Paul Callens , Milos Cernak

Speech audio quality is subject to degradation caused by an acoustic environment and isotropic ambient and point noises. The environment can lead to decreased speech intelligibility and loss of focus and attention by the listener. Basic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Paula Sánchez López , Paul Callens , Milos Cernak

Accurately estimating and simulating the physical properties of objects from real-world sound recordings is of great practical importance in the fields of vision, graphics, and robotics. However, the progress in these directions has been…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xutong Jin , Chenxi Xu , Ruohan Gao , Jiajun Wu , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Knowing the geometry of a space is desirable for many applications, e.g. sound source localization, sound field reproduction or auralization. In circumstances where only acoustic signals can be obtained, estimating the geometry of a room is…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Linh Nguyen , Jaime Valls Miro , Xiaojun Qiu

Reflective and textureless surfaces such as windows, mirrors, and walls can be a challenge for object and scene reconstruction. These surfaces are often poorly reconstructed and filled with depth discontinuities and holes, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Justin Wilson , Nicholas Rewkowski , Ming C. Lin , Henry Fuchs

We introduce HiFi-HARP, a large-scale dataset of 7th-order Higher-Order Ambisonic Room Impulse Responses (HOA-RIRs) consisting of more than 100,000 RIRs generated via a hybrid acoustic simulation in realistic indoor scenes. HiFi-HARP…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Shivam Saini , Jürgen Peissig

Virtual acoustic environments enable the creation and simulation of realistic and ecologically valid daily-life situations with applications in hearing research and audiology. Hereby, reverberant indoor environments play an important role.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Stefan Fichna , Steven van de Par , Stephan D. Ewert

Knowing the room geometry may be very beneficial for many audio applications, including sound reproduction, acoustic scene analysis, and sound source localization. Room geometry inference (RGI) deals with the problem of reflector…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Cagdas Tuna , Altan Akat , H. Nazim Bicer , Andreas Walther , Emanuël A. P. Habets

For audio in augmented reality (AR), knowledge of the users' real acoustic environment is crucial for rendering virtual sounds that seamlessly blend into the environment. As acoustic measurements are usually not feasible in practical AR…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Francesc Lluís , Nils Meyer-Kahlen

We present an end-to-end binaural audio rendering approach (Listen2Scene) for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications. We propose a novel neural-network-based binaural sound propagation method to generate acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Anton Ratnarajah , Dinesh Manocha

Audio adversarial examples are audio files that have been manipulated to fool an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, while still sounding benign to a human listener. Most methods to generate such samples are based on a two-step…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Armin Ettenhofer , Jan-Philipp Schulze , Karla Pizzi

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

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

Realistic sound simulation plays a critical role in many applications. A key element in sound simulation is the room impulse response (RIR), which characterizes how sound propagates from a source to a listener within a given space. Recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Chen Si , Qianyi Wu , Chaitanya Amballa , Romit Roy Choudhury

This contribution introduces a dataset of 7th-order Ambisonic Room Impulse Responses (HOA-RIRs), created using the Image Source Method. By employing higher-order Ambisonics, our dataset enables precise spatial audio reproduction, a critical…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Shivam Saini , Jürgen Peissig

While experimentation with synthetic stimuli in abstracted listening situations has a long standing and successful history in hearing research, an increased interest exists on closing the remaining gap towards real-life listening by…

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

Mobile robots operating indoors must be prepared to navigate challenging scenes that contain transparent surfaces. This paper proposes a novel method for the fusion of acoustic and visual sensing modalities through implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Advaith V. Sethuraman , Onur Bagoren , Harikrishnan Seetharaman , Dalton Richardson , Joseph Taylor , Katherine A. Skinner