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SofaMyRoom: a fast and multiplatform "shoebox" room simulator for binaural room impulse response dataset generation

@article{Barumerli2021SofaMyRoomAF,
  title={SofaMyRoom: a fast and multiplatform "shoebox" room simulator for binaural room impulse response dataset generation},
  author={Roberto Barumerli and Daniele Bianchi and Michele Geronazzo and Federico Avanzini},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2021},
  volume={abs/2106.12992}
}
This paper introduces a shoebox room simulator able to systematically generate synthetic datasets of binaural room impulse responses (BRIRs) given an arbitrary set of head-related transfer functions (HRTFs). The evaluation of machine hearing algorithms frequently requires BRIR datasets in order to simulate the acoustics of any environment. However, currently available solutions typically consider only HRTFs measured on dummy heads, which poorly characterize the high variability in spatial sound… 
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