Room impulse response synthesis and validation using a hybrid acoustic model

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1940-1952

  Southern, Alex ^a   Siltanen, Samuel ^a   Murphy, Damian T ^b   Savioja, Lauri ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

auralization; FDTD; hybrid acoustic modeling; image source

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODELING; AURALIZATIONS; HYBRID ACOUSTIC MODEL; IMAGE-SOURCE; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE (RIR);

ACOUSTICS; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

IMPULSE RESPONSE;

EID: 84880516312     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2013.2263139     Document Type: Article

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