Database of binaural room impulse responses of an apartment-like environment

Fiete Winter (1) , Hagen Wierstorf (2) , Ariel Podlubne (3) , Thomas Forgue (3) , Jérôme Manhes (4) , Matthieu Herrb (5) , Sascha Spors (1) , Alexander Raake (2) , Patrick Danès (3)

1 Institut für Informatik [Rostock]
2 TU - Technische Universität Ilmenau
3 LAAS-RAP - Équipe Robotique, Action et Perception
4 LAAS-I2C - Service Instrumentation Conception Caractérisation
5 LAAS-IDEA - Service Informatique : Développement, Exploitation et Assistance

We present a database of binaural room impulse responses (BRIRs) measured in an apartment-like environment. The BRIRs were captured at four different sound source positions, each combined with four listener positions. A head and torso simulator (HATS) with varying head-orientation in the range of ±78 • with 2 • resolution was used. Additionally, BRIRs of 20 listener positions along a trajectory connecting two of the four positions were measured, each with a fixed head-orientation. The data is provided in the Spatially Oriented Format for Acoustics (SOFA) and it is freely available under the Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) license. It can be used to simulate complex acoustic scenes in order to study the process of auditory scene analysis for humans and machines.

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Robotique [cs.RO]

Fiete Winter, Hagen Wierstorf, Ariel Podlubne, Thomas Forgue, Jérôme Manhes, et al.. Database of binaural room impulse responses of an apartment-like environment. Convention e-Brief of the Audio Engineering Society, Jun 2016, Paris, France. 4p. ⟨hal-01969317⟩