Download Parametric Resynthesis of Measured Spatial Room Impulse Responses
Spatial Room Impulse Responses (SRIRs) are fundamental to immersive audio rendering and have become a key focus of recent machine learning research in acoustics and auralization. Due to the high computational cost of direct convolution, spatial audio systems commonly employ artificial reverberation algorithms. However, these approaches often fail to accurately reproduce the spatial, temporal, and spectral characteristics of early reflections, leading to notable deviations from measured SRIRs. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for the analysis and efficient resynthesis of SRIRs captured with Spherical Microphone Arrays (SMAs). The proposed method accounts for hardware-induced artifacts, including scattering and spatial aliasing. Early reflections are reconstructed using a parametric approach based on the Herglotz analysis method, while late reverberation is synthesized using a Directional Feedback Delay Network (DFDN) with optimized filter-attenuation and correlation-matching. The proposed framework produces signals whose spatial correlation and Energy Decay Relief (EDR) closely match those of measured SRIRs, demonstrating its effectiveness for both real-time spatial audio rendering and realistic dataset generation for machine learning applications.