A Simple, Robust Measure of Reverberation Echo Density

Abel JS, Huang P. A Simple, Robust Measure of Reverberation Echo Density. In: AES Convention 121. Audio Engineering Society; 2006. Paper 6985. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=13819

@inproceedings{Abel2006_13819,
  author = {Abel, Jonathan S. and Huang, Patty},
  title = {{A Simple, Robust Measure of Reverberation Echo Density}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 121},
  note = {Paper 6985},
  year = {2006},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=13819}
}

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AB  - A simple, robust method for measuring echo density from a reverberation impulse response is presented. Based on the property that a reverberant field takes on a Gaussian distribution once an acoustic space is fully mixed, the measure counts samples lying outside a standard deviation in a given impulse response window and normalizes by that expected for Gaussian noise. The measure is insensitive to equalization and level, and is seen to perform well on simulated data, artificial reverberation, and measurements of room impulse responses. Listening tests indicate a correlation between echo density measured in this way and perceived temporal quality or texture of the reverberation.
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