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We introduce a database of multi-channel recordings performed in an acoustic lab with adjustable reverberation time. The recordings provide information about room impulse responses (RIR) for various positions of a loudspeaker. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Jaroslav Čmejla , Tomáš Kounovský , Sharon Gannot , Zbyněk Koldovský , Pinchas Tandeitnik

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

Radio map estimation (RME), which predicts wireless signal metrics at unmeasured locations from sparse measurements, has attracted growing attention as a key enabler of intelligent wireless networks. The majority of existing RME techniques…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Haihan Nan , Emmanuel Obeng Frimpong , Zhi Tian , Yue Wang , Lingjia Liu

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…

In reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems, in order to overcome the limitation of the conventional channel state information (CSI) acquisition techniques, this paper proposes a location…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhe Xing , Rui Wang , Xiaojun Yuan , Jun Wu

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

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

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

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

This work gives a blind beamforming strategy for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), aiming to boost the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by coordinating phase shifts across reflective elements in the absence of channel information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Shuyi Ren , Kaiming Shen , Yaowen Zhang , Xin Li , Xin Chen , Zhi-Quan Luo

Conventional policy for configuring an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) typically requires channel state information (CSI), thus incurring substantial overhead costs and facing incompatibility with the current network protocols. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Fan Xu , Jiawei Yao , Wenhai Lai , Kaiming Shen , Xin Li , Xin Chen , Zhi-Quan Luo

In real-world acoustic scenarios, there often are multiple sound sources present in a room. These sources are situated in various locations and produce sounds that reach the listener from multiple directions. The presence of multiple…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Kyungyun Lee , Jeonghun Seo , Keunwoo Choi , Sangmoon Lee , Ben Sangbae Chon

We present an algorithm that fully reverses the shoebox image source method (ISM), a popular and widely used room impulse response (RIR) simulator for cuboid rooms introduced by Allen and Berkley in 1979. More precisely, given a discrete…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tom Sprunck , Antoine Deleforge , Yannick Privat , Cédric Foy

The spatial impulse response (SIR) method is a well-known approach to calculate transient acoustic fields of arbitrary-shape transducers. It involves the evaluation of a time-dependent surface integral. Although analytic expressions of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Dimitris Perdios , Florian Martinez , Marcel Arditi , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Reconstructing the room transfer functions needed to calculate the complex sound field in a room has several important real-world applications. However, an unpractical number of microphones is often required. Recently, in addition to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Francesca Ronchini , Luca Comanducci , Mirco Pezzoli , Fabio Antonacci , Augusto Sarti

Knowledge of loudspeaker responses are useful in a number of applications, where a sound system is located inside a room that alters the listening experience depending on position within the room. Acquisition of sound fields for sound…

In the context of building acoustics and the acoustic diagnosis of an existing room, this paper introduces and investigates a new approach to estimate mean absorption coefficients solely from a room impulse response (RIR). This inverse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Cédric Foy , Antoine Deleforge , Diego Di Carlo

The conventional room geometry blind inference techniques with acoustic signals are conducted based on the prior knowledge of the environment, such as the room impulse response (RIR) or the sound source position, which will limit its…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Shan Gao , Xihong Wu , Tianshu Qu

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