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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

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

An environment acoustic model represents how sound is transformed by the physical characteristics of an indoor environment, for any given source/receiver location. Traditional methods for constructing acoustic models involve expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Arjun Somayazulu , Sagnik Majumder , Changan Chen , Kristen Grauman

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

We present a new method to capture the acoustic characteristics of real-world rooms using commodity devices, and use the captured characteristics to generate similar sounding sources with virtual models. Given the captured audio and an…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Zhenyu Tang , Nicholas J. Bryan , Dingzeyu Li , Timothy R. Langlois , Dinesh Manocha

Ensuring performance robustness for a variety of situations that can occur in real-world environments is one of the challenging tasks in sound event classification. One of the unpredictable and detrimental factors in performance, especially…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Jaejun Lee , Donmoon Lee , Hyeong-Seok Choi , Kyogu Lee

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

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 investigate the impact of more realistic room simulation for training far-field keyword spotting systems without fine-tuning on in-domain data. To this end, we study the impact of incorporating the following factors in the room impulse…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Eric Bezzam , Robin Scheibler , Cyril Cadoux , Thibault Gisselbrecht

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

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

We propose a multimodal deep learning model for VR auralization that generates spatial room impulse responses (SRIRs) in real time to reconstruct scene-specific auditory perception. Employing SRIRs as the output reduces computational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Zhiyu Li , Xinwen Yue , Shenghui Zhao , Jing Wang

Measuring room impulse responses (RIRs) at multiple spatial points is a time-consuming task, while simulations require detailed knowledge of the room's acoustic environment. In prior work, we proposed a method for estimating the early part…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Kathleen MacWilliam , Thomas Dietzen , Toon van Waterschoot

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

Sound effects model design commonly uses digital signal processing techniques with full control ability, but it is difficult to achieve realism within a limited number of parameters. Recently, neural sound effects synthesis methods have…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yisu Zong , Joshua Reiss

Room impulse response (RIR) generation remains a critical challenge for creating immersive virtual acoustic environments. Current methods suffer from two fundamental limitations: the scarcity of full-band RIR datasets and the inability of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ali Vosoughi , Yongyi Zang , Qihui Yang , Nathan Paek , Randal Leistikow , Chenliang Xu

Multimodal research and applications are becoming more commonplace as Virtual Reality (VR) technology integrates different sensory feedback, enabling the recreation of real spaces in an audio-visual context. Within VR experiences, numerous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Mauricio Flores-Vargas , Enda Bates , Rachel McDonnell

We propose a mesh-based neural network (MESH2IR) to generate acoustic impulse responses (IRs) for indoor 3D scenes represented using a mesh. The IRs are used to create a high-quality sound experience in interactive applications and audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Anton Ratnarajah , Zhenyu Tang , Rohith Chandrashekar Aralikatti , Dinesh Manocha

Immersion in virtual and augmented reality solutions is reliant on plausible spatial audio. However, plausibly representing a space for immersive audio often requires many individual acoustic measurements of source-microphone pairs with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Ben Heritage , Fiona Ryder , Michael McLoughlin , Karolina Prawda

This paper focuses on room fingerprinting, a task involving the analysis of an audio recording to determine the specific volume and shape of the room in which it was captured. While it is relatively straightforward to determine the basic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Jacob Bitterman , Daniel Levi , Hilel Hagai Diamandi , Sharon Gannot , Tal Rosenwein