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This paper presents the 3D soundfield synthesis of the pressure field radiated by directional acoustic sources using both the multimodal method and higher-order ambisonics (HOA). Ambisonics is a technique for encoding and reproducing…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Philippe Thorner , Eric Bavu , Jean-Baptiste Doc , Christophe Langrenne

Ambisonics is a spatial audio format describing a sound field. First-order Ambisonics (FOA) is a popular format comprising only four channels. This limited channel count comes at the expense of spatial accuracy. Ideally one would be able to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Ismael Nawfal , Symeon Delikaris Manias , Mehrez Souden , Juha Merimaa , Joshua Atkins , Elisabeth McMullin , Shadi Pirhosseinloo , Daniel Phillips

Rendering immersive spatial audio in virtual reality (VR) and video games demands a fast and accurate generation of room impulse responses (RIRs) to recreate auditory environments plausibly. However, the conventional methods for simulating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Jackie Lin , Georg Götz , Sebastian J. Schlecht

We propose a multimodal deep learning model for VR auralization that generates spatial room impulse responses (SRIRs) in real time to reconstruct scene-specific auditory perception. Employing SRIRs as the output reduces computational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Zhiyu Li , Xinwen Yue , Shenghui Zhao , Jing Wang

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

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

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

This paper introduces BIRD, the Big Impulse Response Dataset. This open dataset consists of 100,000 multichannel room impulse responses (RIRs) generated from simulations using the Image Method, making it the largest multichannel open…

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

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

Measuring the acoustic characteristics of a space is often done by capturing its impulse response (IR), a representation of how a full-range stimulus sound excites it. This work generates an IR from a single image, which can then be applied…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Nikhil Singh , Jeff Mentch , Jerry Ng , Matthew Beveridge , Iddo Drori

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

Measuring room impulse responses (RIRs) at multiple spatial points is a time-consuming task, while simulations require detailed knowledge of the room's acoustic environment. In prior work, we proposed a method for estimating the early part…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Kathleen MacWilliam , Thomas Dietzen , Toon van Waterschoot

This work introduces a novel method for binaural reproduction from arbitrary microphone arrays, based on array-aware optimization of Ambisonics encoding through Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) pre-processing. The proposed approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Yhonatan Gayer , Vladimir Tourbabin , Zamir Ben Hur , David Lou Alon , Boaz Rafaely

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

Advanced remote applications such as Networked Music Performance (NMP) require solutions to guarantee immersive real-world-like interaction among users. Therefore, the adoption of spatial audio formats, such as Ambisonics, is fundamental to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Paolo Ostan , Carlo Centofanti , Mirco Pezzoli , Alberto Bernardini , Claudia Rinaldi , Fabio Antonacci

Airborne 3D imaging using ultrasound is a promising sensing modality for robotic applications in harsh environments. Over the last decade, several high-performance systems have been proposed in the literature. Most of these sensors use a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Dennis Laurijssen , Walter Daems , Jan Steckel

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

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

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