Data-driven room acoustic modeling via differentiable feedback delay networks with learnable delay lines

Autor: Alessandro Ilic Mezza, Riccardo Giampiccolo, Enzo De Sena, Alberto Bernardini
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, Vol 2024, Iss 1, Pp 1-20 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1687-4722
DOI: 10.1186/s13636-024-00371-5
Popis: Abstract Over the past few decades, extensive research has been devoted to the design of artificial reverberation algorithms aimed at emulating the room acoustics of physical environments. Despite significant advancements, automatic parameter tuning of delay-network models remains an open challenge. We introduce a novel method for finding the parameters of a feedback delay network (FDN) such that its output renders target attributes of a measured room impulse response. The proposed approach involves the implementation of a differentiable FDN with trainable delay lines, which, for the first time, allows us to simultaneously learn each and every delay-network parameter via backpropagation. The iterative optimization process seeks to minimize a perceptually motivated time-domain loss function incorporating differentiable terms accounting for energy decay and echo density. Through experimental validation, we show that the proposed method yields time-invariant frequency-independent FDNs capable of closely matching the desired acoustical characteristics and outperforms existing methods based on genetic algorithms and analytical FDN design.
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