Database of Binaural Room Impulse Responses of an Apartment-Like Environment

F Winter, H Wierstorf, A Podlubne, T Forgue, J Manhès, M Herrb, S Spors, A Raake, P Danès, "Database of Binaural Room Impulse Responses of an Apartment-Like Environment," in 140th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, eBrief 252 (2016). [ link ] [ paper ]

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Winter2016a,
    title     = {Database of Binaural Room Impulse Responses of an
                 Apartment-Like Environment},
    author    = {Winter, Fiete and Wierstorf, Hagen and Podlubne, Ariel
                 and Forgue, Thomas and Manh\`{e}s, J\'{e}rome
                 and Herrb, Matthieu and Spors, Sascha and Raake, Alexander
                 and Dan\`{e}s, Patrick},
    booktitle = {140th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society},
    address   = {Paris, France},
    pages     = {eBrief 252},
    month     = {June},
    year      = {2016},
    url       = {http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=18156}
}

Abstract

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 degrees with 2-degrees 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.

Supplementary Material

The data is stored in the SOFA format and a corrected version can be freely download at 10.5281/zenodo.49357.

The easiest way to access the BRIRs in the SOFA format is most probably by using Matlab together with the SOFA API for Matlab and the get_ir() function from the Sound Field Synthesis Toolbox.