Regularized Spherical Fourier Transform for Room Impulse Response Interpolation

Autor: Julio Alarcon, Cesar D. Salvador, Javier Solis-Lastra
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: 2021 IEEE XXVIII International Conference on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computing (INTERCON).
DOI: 10.1109/intercon52678.2021.9532805
Popis: Room impulse responses (RIRs) are a key tool in architectural acoustics and spatial sound for virtual reality. They characterize the room response between a sound source and a receiver. Directional RIRs at the receiver position can be measured with spherical microphone arrays or calculated with 3D models and numerical methods. Either because of a low number of microphones or limited computational capacity, there is a need to interpolate the RIRs to obtain higher directional resolutions. The spherical Fourier transform (SFT) enables a promising physics-based interpolation approach. However, existing SFT algorithms for acoustic purposes highly depend on the spherical distribution of microphones. This paper presents a SFT algorithm based on Tikhonov regularization that is suitable for random spherical distributions. Results show that the regularized SFT maintains the interpolation error bounded at high-energy values in time and up to a maximum frequency determined by the number of microphones. An open-source implementation is made publicly available to foster the reproducibility of this research.
Databáze: OpenAIRE