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Room Impulse Responses (RIRs) enable realistic acoustic simulation, with applications ranging from multimedia production to speech data augmentation. However, acquiring high-quality real-world RIRs is labor-intensive, and data scarcity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Kirak Kim , Sungyoung Kim

We introduce a computationally efficient and tunable feedback delay network (FDN) architecture for real-time room impulse response (RIR) rendering that addresses the computational and latency challenges inherent in traditional convolution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Armin Gerami , Ramani Duraiswami

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

Room Impulse Responses (RIRs) characterize acoustic environments and are crucial in multiple audio signal processing tasks. High-quality RIR estimates drive applications such as virtual microphones, sound source localization, augmented…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Sagi Della Torre , Mirco Pezzoli , Fabio Antonacci , Sharon Gannot

In this paper we describe the recent advancements made in the IBM i-vector speaker recognition system for conversational speech. In particular, we identify key techniques that contribute to significant improvements in performance of our…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Seyed Omid Sadjadi , Sriram Ganapathy , Jason W. Pelecanos

We present a novel approach that improves the performance of reverberant speech separation. Our approach is based on an accurate geometric acoustic simulator (GAS) which generates realistic room impulse responses (RIRs) by modeling both…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Rohith Aralikatti , Anton Ratnarajah , Zhenyu Tang , Dinesh Manocha

This paper presents dEchorate: a new database of measured multichannel Room Impulse Responses (RIRs) including annotations of early echo timings and 3D positions of microphones, real sources and image sources under different wall…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-28 Diego Di Carlo , Pinchas Tandeitnik , Cédric Foy , Antoine Deleforge , Nancy Bertin , Sharon Gannot

The reverberation time (T60) and the direct-to-reverberant ratio (DRR) are commonly used to characterize room acoustic environments. Both parameters can be measured from an acoustic impulse response (AIR) or using blind estimation methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Nicholas J. Bryan

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

Several established parameters and metrics have been used to characterize the acoustics of a room. The most important are the Direct-To-Reverberant Ratio (DRR), the Reverberation Time (T60) and the reflection coefficient. The acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-10-05 James Eaton , Nikolay D. Gaubitch , Alastair H. Moore , Patrick A. Naylor

Accurate estimation of Room Impulse Response (RIR), which captures an environment's acoustic properties, is important for speech processing and AR/VR applications. We propose AV-RIR, a novel multi-modal multi-task learning approach to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Anton Ratnarajah , Sreyan Ghosh , Sonal Kumar , Purva Chiniya , Dinesh Manocha

In mixed reality applications, a realistic acoustic experience in spatial environments is as crucial as the visual experience for achieving true immersion. Despite recent advances in neural approaches for Room Impulse Response (RIR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xiulong Liu , Anurag Kumar , Paul Calamia , Sebastia V. Amengual , Calvin Murdock , Ishwarya Ananthabhotla , Philip Robinson , Eli Shlizerman , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu , Ruohan Gao

Although end-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E ASR) has achieved great performance in tasks that have numerous paired data, it is still challenging to make E2E ASR robust against noisy and low-resource conditions. In this study, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Emiru Tsunoo , Kentaro Shibata , Chaitanya Narisetty , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Shinji Watanabe

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

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

Speaker extraction aims to extract target speech signal from a multi-talker environment with interference speakers and surrounding noise, given the target speaker's reference information. Most speaker extraction systems achieve satisfactory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-12 Chengyun Deng , Shiqian Ma , Yi Zhang , Yongtao Sha , Hui Zhang , Hui Song , Xiangang Li

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

A common problem in acoustic design is the placement of speakers or receivers for public address systems, telecommunications, and home smart speakers or digital personal assistants. We present a novel algorithm to automatically place a…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Nicolas Morales , Zhenyu Tang , Dinesh Manocha

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

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