Blind reverberation time estimation from ambisonic recordings

Abstract

Reverberation time is an important room acoustic parameter, useful for many acoustic signal processing applications. Most of the existing work on blind reverberation time estimation focuses on the single-channel case. However, the recent developments and interest on immersive audio have brought to the market a number of spherical microphone arrays, together with the usage of ambisonics as a standard spatial audio convention. This work presents a novel blind reverberation time estimation method, which specifically targets ambisonic recordings, a field that remained unexplored to the best of our knowledge. Experimental validation on a synthetic reverberant dataset shows that the proposed algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art methods under most evaluation criteria.