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Despite decades of research on reverberant speech, comparing methods remains difficult because most corpora lack per-file acoustic annotations or provide limited documentation for reproduction. We present RIR-Mega-Speech, a corpus of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Mandip Goswami

In an ultra wideband (UWB) impulse radio (IR) system, a number of pulses, each transmitted in an interval called a "frame", is employed to represent one information symbol. Conventionally, a single type of UWB pulse is used in all frames of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Sinan Gezici , Zafer Sahinoglu , Hisashi Kobayashi , H. Vincent Poor

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

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

Data-driven acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) methods, predominantly trained on synthetic or constrained real-world datasets, encounter performance declines in unseen echo scenarios, especially in real environments where echo paths are not…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Fei Zhao , Shulin He , Xueliang Zhang

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

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

We present a database of recordings and radiation patterns of individual notes for 41 modern and historical musical instruments, measured with a 32-channel spherical microphone array in anechoic conditions. In addition, directivities…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 David Ackermann , Fabian Brinkmann , Stefan Weinzierl

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 paper presents DISC, a dataset of millimeter-wave channel impulse response measurements for integrated human activity sensing and communication. This is the first dataset collected with a software-defined radio testbed that transmits…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-13 Jacopo Pegoraro , Pablo Saucedo , Jesus Omar Lacruz , Michele Rossi , Joerg Widmer

The ability to accurately estimate room impulse responses (RIRs) is integral to many applications of spatial audio processing. Regrettably, estimating the RIR using ambient signals, such as speech or music, remains a challenging problem due…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 David Sundström , Anton Björkman , Andreas Jakobsson , Filip Elvander

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

As humans, we hear sound every second of our life. The sound we hear is often affected by the acoustics of the environment surrounding us. For example, a spacious hall leads to more reverberation. Room Impulse Responses (RIR) are commonly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yinfeng Yu , Changan Chen , Lele Cao , Fangkai Yang , Fuchun Sun

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

This paper introduces MILUV, a Multi-UAV Indoor Localization dataset with UWB and Vision measurements. This dataset comprises 217 minutes of flight time over 36 experiments using three quadcopters, collecting ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging…

Recent research has demonstrated the complementary nature of camera-based and inertial data for modeling human gestures, activities, and sentiment. Yet, despite its growing importance for environmental sensing as well as the advance of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Si Zuo , Yuqing Song , Sahar Golipoor , Ying Liu , Xujun Ma , Stephan Sigg

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

Heart rate (HR) is an important physiological signal that reflects the physical and emotional activities of humans. Traditional HR measurements are mainly based on contact monitors, which are inconvenient and may cause discomfort for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Xuesong Niu , Hu Han , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

We address the problem of estimating room impulse responses (RIRs) in noisy, uncontrolled environments where non-stationary sounds such as speech or footsteps corrupt conventional deconvolution. We propose AnyRIR, a non-intrusive method…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Kyung Yun Lee , Nils Meyer-Kahlen , Karolina Prawda , Vesa Välimäki , Sebastian J. Schlecht

In this paper, we present an acoustic database, designed to drive and support research on voiced enabled technologies inside moving vehicles. The recording process involves (i) recordings of acoustic impulse responses, acquired under static…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Nikolaos Stefanakis , Marinos Kalaitzakis , Andreas Symiakakis , Stefanos Papadakis , Despoina Pavlidi