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This study provides a comprehensive test of a head-related impulse response (HRIR) cues for a spatial auditory brain-computer interface (saBCI) speller paradigm. We present a comparison with the conventional virtual sound headphone-based…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-17 Chisaki Nakaizumi , Shoji Makino , Tomasz M. Rutkowski

We present a neural-network-based fast diffuse room impulse response generator (FAST-RIR) for generating room impulse responses (RIRs) for a given acoustic environment. Our FAST-RIR takes rectangular room dimensions, listener and speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Anton Ratnarajah , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Meng Yu , Zhenyu Tang , Dinesh Manocha , Dong Yu

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

The ICASSP 2022 Acoustic Echo Cancellation Challenge is intended to stimulate research in acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), which is an important area of speech enhancement and still a top issue in audio communication. This is the third AEC…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Ross Cutler , Ando Saabas , Tanel Parnamaa , Marju Purin , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun , Karsten Sørensen , Robert Aichner

The Room Acoustics and Speaker Distance Estimation (SDE) Challenge at ICASSP 2025 explores the effectiveness of augmented room impulse response (RIR) data for improving SDE model performance. This challenge at GenDARA involves generating…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Anton Ratnarajah , Mehmet Ergezer , Arun Nair , Mrudula Athi

Despite the potential of diffusion models in speech enhancement, their deployment in Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) has been restricted. In this paper, we propose DI-AEC, pioneering a diffusion-based stochastic regeneration approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Yang Liu , Li Wan , Yun Li , Yiteng Huang , Ming Sun , James Luan , Yangyang Shi , Xin Lei

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

Psychoacoustic experiments have shown that directional properties of the direct sound, salient reflections, and the late reverberation of an acoustic room response can have a distinct influence on the auditory perception of a given room.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Thomas Deppisch , Sebastià V. Amengual Garí , Paul Calamia , Jens Ahrens

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 echo cancellation (AEC) is designed to remove echoes, reverberation, and unwanted added sounds from the microphone signal while maintaining the quality of the near-end speaker's speech. This paper proposes adaptive speech quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Bozhong Liu , Xiaoxi Yu , Hantao Huang

We introduce a computationally efficient and tunable feedback delay network (FDN) architecture for real-time room impulse response (RIR) rendering that addresses the computational and latency challenges inherent in traditional convolution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Armin Gerami , Ramani Duraiswami

This paper presents a Multi-Modal Environment-Aware Network (MEAN-RIR), which uses an encoder-decoder framework to predict room impulse response (RIR) based on multi-level environmental information from audio, visual, and textual sources.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Jiajian Chen , Jiakang Chen , Hang Chen , Qing Wang , Yu Gao , Jun Du

Traditionally, adaptive filters have been deployed to achieve AEC by estimating the acoustic echo response using algorithms such as the Normalized Least-Mean-Square (NLMS) algorithm. Several approaches have been proposed over recent years…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Urmila Shrawankar

Deep neural network (DNN)-based approaches to acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) and hybrid speech enhancement systems have gained increasing attention recently, introducing significant performance improvements to this research field. Using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Jan Franzen , Tim Fingscheidt

The room impulse response (RIR) encodes, among others, information about the distance of an acoustic source from the sensors. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to be able to extract that information for acoustic distance…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Tobias Gburrek , Adrian Meise , Joerg Schmalenstroeer , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

In this paper a generalized postfilter algorithm design issues are presented. This postfilter is used to jointly suppress late reverberation, residual echo, and background noise. When residual echo and noise are suppressed, the best result…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Urmila Shrawankar , V M Thakare

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

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) is a real-time SE approach utilizing a speaker embedding of a target person to remove background noise, reverberation, and interfering voices. To deploy a PSE model for full duplex communications, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-29 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka , Alex Ju , Min Tang , Tanel Parnamaa , Huaming Wang

Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) aims to remove interference signals while leaving near-end speech least distorted. As the indistinguishable patterns between near-end speech and interference signals, near-end speech can't be separated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-27 Chang Han , Xinmeng Xu , Weiping Tu , Yuhong Yang , Yajie Liu

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