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Rings like gold, thuds like wood! The sound we hear in a scene is shaped not only by the spatial layout of the environment but also by the materials of the objects and surfaces within it. For instance, a room with wooden walls will produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Mahnoor Fatima Saad , Sagnik Majumder , Kristen Grauman , Ziad Al-Halah

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

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

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

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

The Image Source Method (ISM) is one of the most employed techniques to calculate acoustic Room Impulse Responses (RIRs), however, its computational complexity grows fast with the reverberation time of the room and its computation time can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 David Diaz-Guerra , Antonio Miguel , Jose R. Beltran

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

An immersive acoustic experience enabled by spatial audio is just as crucial as the visual aspect in creating realistic virtual environments. However, existing methods for room impulse response estimation rely either on data-demanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Derong Jin , Ruohan Gao

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

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

A room's acoustic properties are a product of the room's geometry, the objects within the room, and their specific positions. A room's acoustic properties can be characterized by its impulse response (RIR) between a source and listener…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mason Wang , Samuel Clarke , Jui-Hsien Wang , Ruohan Gao , Jiajun Wu

This paper introduces a shoebox room simulator able to systematically generate synthetic datasets of binaural room impulse responses (BRIRs) given an arbitrary set of head-related transfer functions (HRTFs). The evaluation of machine…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Roberto Barumerli , Daniele Bianchi , Michele Geronazzo , Federico Avanzini

Room equalisation aims to increase the quality of loudspeaker reproduction in reverberant environments, compensating for colouration caused by imperfect room reflections and frequency dependant loudspeaker directivity. A common technique in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 James Brooks-Park , Martin Bo Møller , Jan Østergaard , Søren Bech , Steven van de Par

We present Spatial LibriSpeech, a spatial audio dataset with over 650 hours of 19-channel audio, first-order ambisonics, and optional distractor noise. Spatial LibriSpeech is designed for machine learning model training, and it includes…

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

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

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

Room acoustics analysis plays a central role in architectural design, audio engineering, speech intelligibility assessment, and hearing research. Despite the availability of standardized metrics such as reverberation time, clarity, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Mandip Goswami

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

We present ReverbFX, a new room impulse response (RIR) dataset designed for singing voice dereverberation research. Unlike existing datasets based on real recorded RIRs, ReverbFX features a diverse collection of RIRs captured from various…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Julius Richter , Till Svajda , Timo Gerkmann