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We present a method to estimate lighting from a single image of an indoor scene. Previous work has used an environment map representation that does not account for the localized nature of indoor lighting. Instead, we represent lighting as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Marc-André Gardner , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Christian Gagné , Jean-François Lalonde

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

Prediction of room impulse responses (RIRs) is essential for room acoustics, spatial audio, and immersive applications, yet conventional simulations and measurements remain computationally expensive and time-consuming. This work proposes a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Imran Muhammad , Gerald Schuller

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

An environment acoustic model represents how sound is transformed by the physical characteristics of an indoor environment, for any given source/receiver location. Traditional methods for constructing acoustic models involve expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Arjun Somayazulu , Sagnik Majumder , Changan Chen , Kristen Grauman

Acoustic Environment Matching (AEM) is the task of transferring clean audio into a target acoustic environment, enabling engaging applications such as audio dubbing and auditory immersive virtual reality (VR). Recovering similar room…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chenpei Huang , Lingfeng Yao , Kyu In Lee , Lan Emily Zhang , Xun Chen , Miao Pan

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 (RIRs) characterize acoustic environments and are crucial in multiple audio signal processing tasks. High-quality RIR estimates drive applications such as virtual microphones, sound source localization, augmented…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Sagi Della Torre , Mirco Pezzoli , Fabio Antonacci , Sharon Gannot

From whirling ceiling fans to ticking clocks, the sounds that we hear subtly vary as we move through a scene. We ask whether these ambient sounds convey information about 3D scene structure and, if so, whether they provide a useful learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ziyang Chen , Xixi Hu , Andrew Owens

This paper presents an algorithm for indoor layout estimation and reconstruction through the fusion of a sequence of captured images and LiDAR data sets. In the proposed system, a movable platform collects both intensity images and 2D LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Jieyu Li , Robert L Stevenson

This paper presents an illumination estimation method for virtual objects in real environment by learning. While previous works tackled this problem by reconstructing high dynamic range (HDR) environment maps or the corresponding spherical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Di Xu , Zhen Li , Yanning Zhang , Qi Cao

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

Recording and annotating real sound events for a sound event localization and detection (SELD) task is time consuming, and data augmentation techniques are often favored when the amount of data is limited. However, how to augment the…

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…

We introduce a novel algorithm for online estimation of acoustic impulse responses (AIRs) which allows for fast convergence by exploiting prior knowledge about the fundamental structure of AIRs. The proposed method assumes that the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-10 Thomas Haubner , Andreas Brendel , Walter Kellermann

Geometrical approaches for room acoustics simulation have the advantage of requiring limited computational resources while still achieving a high perceptual plausibility. A common approach is using the image source model for direct and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Siegfried Gündert , Stephan D. Ewert , Steven van de Par

We introduce and explore a new multimodal input representation for vision-language models: acoustic field video. Unlike conventional video (RGB with stereo/mono audio), our video stream provides a spatially grounded visualization of sound…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Daehwa Kim , Chris Harrison

We present SPEAR, a continuous receiver-to-receiver acoustic neural warping field for spatial acoustic effects prediction in an acoustic 3D space with a single stationary audio source. Unlike traditional source-to-receiver modelling methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yuhang He , Shitong Xu , Jia-Xing Zhong , Sangyun Shin , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

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

Although 360\textdegree{} cameras ease the capture of panoramic footage, it remains challenging to add realistic 360\textdegree{} audio that blends into the captured scene and is synchronized with the camera motion. We present a method for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Dingzeyu Li , Timothy R. Langlois , Changxi Zheng