Diffuse reverberation model for efficient image-source simulation of room impulse responses

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1429-1439

  Lehmann, Eric A ^a   Johansson, Anders M ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diffuse reverberation model (DRM); Energy decay; Image source method (ISM); Room acoustics; Room impulse response (RIR)

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSE REVERBERATION MODEL (DRM); ENERGY DECAY; IMAGE-SOURCE METHOD; ROOM ACOUSTICS; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; DECAY (ORGANIC); IMPULSE RESPONSE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 77955723783     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2035038     Document Type: Article

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