AnyRIR: Robust Non-intrusive Room Impulse Response Estimation in the Wild

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Main Authors: Lee, Kyung Yun, Meyer-Kahlen, Nils, Prawda, Karolina, Välimäki, Vesa, Schlecht, Sebastian J.
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Published: 2025
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author Lee, Kyung Yun
Meyer-Kahlen, Nils
Prawda, Karolina
Välimäki, Vesa
Schlecht, Sebastian J.
author_facet Lee, Kyung Yun
Meyer-Kahlen, Nils
Prawda, Karolina
Välimäki, Vesa
Schlecht, Sebastian J.
contents We address the problem of estimating room impulse responses (RIRs) in noisy, uncontrolled environments where non-stationary sounds such as speech or footsteps corrupt conventional deconvolution. We propose AnyRIR, a non-intrusive method that uses music as the excitation signal instead of a dedicated test signal, and formulate RIR estimation as an L1-norm regression in the time-frequency domain. Solved efficiently with Iterative Reweighted Least Squares (IRLS) and Least-Squares Minimal Residual (LSMR) methods, this approach exploits the sparsity of non-stationary noise to suppress its influence. Experiments on simulated and measured data show that AnyRIR outperforms L2-based and frequency-domain deconvolution, under in-the-wild noisy scenarios and codec mismatch, enabling robust RIR estimation for AR/VR and related applications.
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spellingShingle AnyRIR: Robust Non-intrusive Room Impulse Response Estimation in the Wild
Lee, Kyung Yun
Meyer-Kahlen, Nils
Prawda, Karolina
Välimäki, Vesa
Schlecht, Sebastian J.
Audio and Speech Processing
We address the problem of estimating room impulse responses (RIRs) in noisy, uncontrolled environments where non-stationary sounds such as speech or footsteps corrupt conventional deconvolution. We propose AnyRIR, a non-intrusive method that uses music as the excitation signal instead of a dedicated test signal, and formulate RIR estimation as an L1-norm regression in the time-frequency domain. Solved efficiently with Iterative Reweighted Least Squares (IRLS) and Least-Squares Minimal Residual (LSMR) methods, this approach exploits the sparsity of non-stationary noise to suppress its influence. Experiments on simulated and measured data show that AnyRIR outperforms L2-based and frequency-domain deconvolution, under in-the-wild noisy scenarios and codec mismatch, enabling robust RIR estimation for AR/VR and related applications.
title AnyRIR: Robust Non-intrusive Room Impulse Response Estimation in the Wild
topic Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17788