AV-RIR: Audio-Visual Room Impulse Response Estimation

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Main Authors: Ratnarajah, Anton, Ghosh, Sreyan, Kumar, Sonal, Chiniya, Purva, Manocha, Dinesh
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author Ratnarajah, Anton
Ghosh, Sreyan
Kumar, Sonal
Chiniya, Purva
Manocha, Dinesh
author_facet Ratnarajah, Anton
Ghosh, Sreyan
Kumar, Sonal
Chiniya, Purva
Manocha, Dinesh
contents 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 accurately estimate the RIR from a given reverberant speech signal and the visual cues of its corresponding environment. AV-RIR builds on a novel neural codec-based architecture that effectively captures environment geometry and materials properties and solves speech dereverberation as an auxiliary task by using multi-task learning. We also propose Geo-Mat features that augment material information into visual cues and CRIP that improves late reverberation components in the estimated RIR via image-to-RIR retrieval by 86%. Empirical results show that AV-RIR quantitatively outperforms previous audio-only and visual-only approaches by achieving 36% - 63% improvement across various acoustic metrics in RIR estimation. Additionally, it also achieves higher preference scores in human evaluation. As an auxiliary benefit, dereverbed speech from AV-RIR shows competitive performance with the state-of-the-art in various spoken language processing tasks and outperforms reverberation time error score in the real-world AVSpeech dataset. Qualitative examples of both synthesized reverberant speech and enhanced speech can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTsKhviukAE.
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Ratnarajah, Anton
Ghosh, Sreyan
Kumar, Sonal
Chiniya, Purva
Manocha, Dinesh
Sound
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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 accurately estimate the RIR from a given reverberant speech signal and the visual cues of its corresponding environment. AV-RIR builds on a novel neural codec-based architecture that effectively captures environment geometry and materials properties and solves speech dereverberation as an auxiliary task by using multi-task learning. We also propose Geo-Mat features that augment material information into visual cues and CRIP that improves late reverberation components in the estimated RIR via image-to-RIR retrieval by 86%. Empirical results show that AV-RIR quantitatively outperforms previous audio-only and visual-only approaches by achieving 36% - 63% improvement across various acoustic metrics in RIR estimation. Additionally, it also achieves higher preference scores in human evaluation. As an auxiliary benefit, dereverbed speech from AV-RIR shows competitive performance with the state-of-the-art in various spoken language processing tasks and outperforms reverberation time error score in the real-world AVSpeech dataset. Qualitative examples of both synthesized reverberant speech and enhanced speech can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTsKhviukAE.
title AV-RIR: Audio-Visual Room Impulse Response Estimation
topic Sound
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00834