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Room impulse responses are a core resource for dereverberation, robust speech recognition, source localization, and room acoustics estimation. We present RIR-Mega, a large collection of simulated RIRs described by a compact, machine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Mandip Goswami

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

Room Impulse Responses estimation is a fundamental problem in spatial audio processing and speech enhancement. In this paper, we build upon our previously introduced diffusion-based inpainting framework for Room Impulse Response…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sagi Della Torre , Mirco Pezzoli , Fabio Antonacci , Sharon Gannot

Single-channel speaker distance estimation has recently achieved centimeter-level accuracy in simulated environments, yet it remains unclear which components of the room impulse response (RIR) the model exploits and how performance depends…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Michael Neri , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

Room acoustic synthesis can be used in Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and gaming applications to enhance listeners' sense of immersion, realism and externalisation. A common approach is to use Geometrical Acoustics (GA) models…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Matteo Scerbo , Lauri Savioja , Enzo De Sena

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

We present a method for improving the quality of synthetic room impulse responses for far-field speech recognition. We bridge the gap between the fidelity of synthetic room impulse responses (RIRs) and the real room impulse responses using…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Anton Ratnarajah , Zhenyu Tang , Dinesh Manocha

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

Generative diffusion models (DM) have been extensively utilized in image super-resolution (ISR). Most of the existing methods adopt the denoising loss from DDPMs for model optimization. We posit that introducing reward feedback learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xiaopeng Sun , Qinwei Lin , Yu Gao , Yujie Zhong , Chengjian Feng , Dengjie Li , Zheng Zhao , Jie Hu , Lin Ma

The image-source method is widely applied to compute room impulse responses (RIRs) of shoebox rooms with arbitrary absorption. However, with increasing RIR lengths, the number of image sources grows rapidly, leading to slow computation. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-12 Sebastian J. Schlecht , Karolina Prawda , Rudolf Rabenstein , Maximilian Schäfer

Knowing the room geometry may be very beneficial for many audio applications, including sound reproduction, acoustic scene analysis, and sound source localization. Room geometry inference (RGI) deals with the problem of reflector…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Cagdas Tuna , Altan Akat , H. Nazim Bicer , Andreas Walther , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Recent considerations for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) assume that RISs can convey information by reflection without the need of transmit radio frequency chains, which, however, is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Shaoe Lin , Beixiong Zheng , George C. Alexandropoulos , Miaowen Wen , Marco Di Renzo , Fangjiong Chen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) that enables the control of the wireless propagation environment has been looked upon as a promising technology for boosting the spectrum and energy efficiency in future wireless communication systems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Samith Abeywickrama , Rui Zhang , Chau Yuen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a revolutionizing solution to enhance wireless communications by intelligently changing the propagation environment. Prior studies on IRS are based on an ideal reflection model with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Wenhao Cai , Hongyu Li , Ming Li , Qian Liu

For audio in augmented reality (AR), knowledge of the users' real acoustic environment is crucial for rendering virtual sounds that seamlessly blend into the environment. As acoustic measurements are usually not feasible in practical AR…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Francesc Lluís , Nils Meyer-Kahlen

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

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

Deep learning approaches have emerged that aim to transform an audio signal so that it sounds as if it was recorded in the same room as a reference recording, with applications both in audio post-production and augmented reality. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-16 Christian J. Steinmetz , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu , Paul Calamia

Acoustic reflector localization is an important issue in audio signal processing, with direct applications in spatial audio, scene reconstruction, and source separation. Several methods have recently been proposed to estimate the 3D…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Luca Remaggi , Philip J. B. Jackson , Philip Coleman , Wenwu Wang

Single image reflection removal (SIRR) is challenging in real scenes, where reflection strength varies spatially and reflection patterns are tightly entangled with transmission structures. This paper presents a diffusion model with prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Telang Xu , Chaoyang Zhang , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaohong Liu