SoundCam: A Dataset for Finding Humans Using Room Acoustics

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Main Authors: Wang, Mason, Clarke, Samuel, Wang, Jui-Hsien, Gao, Ruohan, Wu, Jiajun
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Published: 2023
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author Wang, Mason
Clarke, Samuel
Wang, Jui-Hsien
Gao, Ruohan
Wu, Jiajun
author_facet Wang, Mason
Clarke, Samuel
Wang, Jui-Hsien
Gao, Ruohan
Wu, Jiajun
contents 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 location, or roughly inferred from recordings of natural signals present in the room. Variations in the positions of objects in a room can effect measurable changes in the room's acoustic properties, as characterized by the RIR. Existing datasets of RIRs either do not systematically vary positions of objects in an environment, or they consist of only simulated RIRs. We present SoundCam, the largest dataset of unique RIRs from in-the-wild rooms publicly released to date. It includes 5,000 10-channel real-world measurements of room impulse responses and 2,000 10-channel recordings of music in three different rooms, including a controlled acoustic lab, an in-the-wild living room, and a conference room, with different humans in positions throughout each room. We show that these measurements can be used for interesting tasks, such as detecting and identifying humans, and tracking their positions.
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spellingShingle SoundCam: A Dataset for Finding Humans Using Room Acoustics
Wang, Mason
Clarke, Samuel
Wang, Jui-Hsien
Gao, Ruohan
Wu, Jiajun
Sound
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Audio and Speech Processing
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 location, or roughly inferred from recordings of natural signals present in the room. Variations in the positions of objects in a room can effect measurable changes in the room's acoustic properties, as characterized by the RIR. Existing datasets of RIRs either do not systematically vary positions of objects in an environment, or they consist of only simulated RIRs. We present SoundCam, the largest dataset of unique RIRs from in-the-wild rooms publicly released to date. It includes 5,000 10-channel real-world measurements of room impulse responses and 2,000 10-channel recordings of music in three different rooms, including a controlled acoustic lab, an in-the-wild living room, and a conference room, with different humans in positions throughout each room. We show that these measurements can be used for interesting tasks, such as detecting and identifying humans, and tracking their positions.
title SoundCam: A Dataset for Finding Humans Using Room Acoustics
topic Sound
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03517