Evaluation of Decay Times from Noisy Room Responses with Pure-Tone Excitation

• Autorzy: Meissner M.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Reverberant responses are widely used to characterize acoustic properties of rooms, such as the early decay time (EDT) and the reverberation times T20 and T30. However, in real conditions a sound decay is often deformed by background noise, thus a precise evaluation of decay times from noisy room responses is the main problem. In this paper this issue is examined by means of numerical method where the decay times are estimated from the decay function that has been determined by nonlinear polynomial regression from a pressure envelope obtained via the discrete Hilbert transform. In numerical experiment the room responses were obtained from simulations of a sound decay for two-room coupled system. Calculation results have shown that background noise slightly affects the evaluation of reverberation times T20 and T30 as long as the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is not smaller than about 25 and 35 dB, respectively. However, when the SNR is close to about 20 and 30 dB, high overestimation of these times may occur as a result of bending up of the decay curve during the late decay.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

room acoustics; reverberation; decay times; room response; background noise; coupled rooms

• Wydawca: Instytut Podstawowych Problemów Techniki PAN ; Komitet Akustyki PAN ; Polskie Towarzystwo Akustyczne
• Czasopismo: Archives of Acoustics
• Rocznik: 2013
• Tom: Vol. 38, No. 1
• Strony: 47--54
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 28 poz., tab., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Meissner M.

• Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences Pawinskiego 5B, 02–106 Warszawa, Poland

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