SoundCam: A Dataset for Finding Humans Using Room Acoustics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03517v2
• Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:15:52 GMT
• Title: SoundCam: A Dataset for Finding Humans Using Room Acoustics
• Authors: Mason Wang, Samuel Clarke, Jui-Hsien Wang, Ruohan Gao, Jiajun Wu
• Abstract summary: We present SoundCam, the largest dataset of unique RIRs from in-the-wild rooms publicly released to date. It includes 5,000 10-channel real-world measurements of room impulse responses and 2,000 10-channel recordings of music in three different rooms. We show that these measurements can be used for interesting tasks, such as detecting and identifying humans, and tracking their positions.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: A room's acoustic properties are a product of the room's geometry, the objects within the room, and their specific positions. A room's acoustic properties can be characterized by its impulse response (RIR) between a source and listener location, or roughly inferred from recordings of natural signals present in the room. Variations in the positions of objects in a room can effect measurable changes in the room's acoustic properties, as characterized by the RIR. Existing datasets of RIRs either do not systematically vary positions of objects in an environment, or they consist of only simulated RIRs. We present SoundCam, the largest dataset of unique RIRs from in-the-wild rooms publicly released to date. It includes 5,000 10-channel real-world measurements of room impulse responses and 2,000 10-channel recordings of music in three different rooms, including a controlled acoustic lab, an in-the-wild living room, and a conference room, with different humans in positions throughout each room. We show that these measurements can be used for interesting tasks, such as detecting and identifying humans, and tracking their positions.

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