Room Transfer Function Reconstruction Using Complex-valued Neural Networks and Irregularly Distributed Microphones

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Main Authors: Ronchini, Francesca, Comanducci, Luca, Pezzoli, Mirco, Antonacci, Fabio, Sarti, Augusto
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author Ronchini, Francesca
Comanducci, Luca
Pezzoli, Mirco
Antonacci, Fabio
Sarti, Augusto
author_facet Ronchini, Francesca
Comanducci, Luca
Pezzoli, Mirco
Antonacci, Fabio
Sarti, Augusto
contents Reconstructing the room transfer functions needed to calculate the complex sound field in a room has several important real-world applications. However, an unpractical number of microphones is often required. Recently, in addition to classical signal processing methods, deep learning techniques have been applied to reconstruct the room transfer function starting from a very limited set of measurements at scattered points in the room. In this paper, we employ complex-valued neural networks to estimate room transfer functions in the frequency range of the first room resonances, using a few irregularly distributed microphones. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that complex-valued neural networks are used to estimate room transfer functions. To analyze the benefits of applying complex-valued optimization to the considered task, we compare the proposed technique with a state-of-the-art kernel-based signal processing approach for sound field reconstruction, showing that the proposed technique exhibits relevant advantages in terms of phase accuracy and overall quality of the reconstructed sound field. For informative purposes, we also compare the model with a similarly-structured data-driven approach that, however, applies a real-valued neural network to reconstruct only the magnitude of the sound field.
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spellingShingle Room Transfer Function Reconstruction Using Complex-valued Neural Networks and Irregularly Distributed Microphones
Ronchini, Francesca
Comanducci, Luca
Pezzoli, Mirco
Antonacci, Fabio
Sarti, Augusto
Audio and Speech Processing
Machine Learning
Sound
Signal Processing
Reconstructing the room transfer functions needed to calculate the complex sound field in a room has several important real-world applications. However, an unpractical number of microphones is often required. Recently, in addition to classical signal processing methods, deep learning techniques have been applied to reconstruct the room transfer function starting from a very limited set of measurements at scattered points in the room. In this paper, we employ complex-valued neural networks to estimate room transfer functions in the frequency range of the first room resonances, using a few irregularly distributed microphones. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that complex-valued neural networks are used to estimate room transfer functions. To analyze the benefits of applying complex-valued optimization to the considered task, we compare the proposed technique with a state-of-the-art kernel-based signal processing approach for sound field reconstruction, showing that the proposed technique exhibits relevant advantages in terms of phase accuracy and overall quality of the reconstructed sound field. For informative purposes, we also compare the model with a similarly-structured data-driven approach that, however, applies a real-valued neural network to reconstruct only the magnitude of the sound field.
title Room Transfer Function Reconstruction Using Complex-valued Neural Networks and Irregularly Distributed Microphones
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Machine Learning
Sound
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04866