An open problem in room impulse response (RIR) measurement is the effect of nonlinearities, especially those with memory, present in the measurement system, specifically in the power amplifier and in the loudspeaker. The nonlinearities can corrupt the measurement introducing artifacts. The paper discusses a RIR measurement method that is robust towards these nonlinearities. The proposed methodology allows measuring the RIR using the cross-correlation method, i.e., computing the cross-correlation between the output signal and an appropriate sequence. In contrast to other cross-correlation based methods, the proposed approach directly estimates the first-order kernel of the Volterra filter modeling the measurement systems, i.e., the system impulse response for small signals. The proposed approach exploits the concepts of orthogonal periodic sequences, recently proposed in the literature. The input signal can be any periodic persistently exciting sequence and can also be a quantized sequence. Measurements performed both on an emulated scenario and in real environments illustrate the validity of the approach and compare it with other competing RIR measurement methods.

A Room Impulse Response Measurement Method Robust Towards Nonlinearities Based on Orthogonal Periodic Sequences / Carini, A.; Cecchi, S.; Terenzi, A.; Orcioni, S.. - In: IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING. - ISSN 2329-9290. - 29:(2021), pp. 3104-3117. [10.1109/TASLP.2021.3120595]

A Room Impulse Response Measurement Method Robust Towards Nonlinearities Based on Orthogonal Periodic Sequences

Cecchi S.;Terenzi A.;Orcioni S.
2021-01-01

Abstract

An open problem in room impulse response (RIR) measurement is the effect of nonlinearities, especially those with memory, present in the measurement system, specifically in the power amplifier and in the loudspeaker. The nonlinearities can corrupt the measurement introducing artifacts. The paper discusses a RIR measurement method that is robust towards these nonlinearities. The proposed methodology allows measuring the RIR using the cross-correlation method, i.e., computing the cross-correlation between the output signal and an appropriate sequence. In contrast to other cross-correlation based methods, the proposed approach directly estimates the first-order kernel of the Volterra filter modeling the measurement systems, i.e., the system impulse response for small signals. The proposed approach exploits the concepts of orthogonal periodic sequences, recently proposed in the literature. The input signal can be any periodic persistently exciting sequence and can also be a quantized sequence. Measurements performed both on an emulated scenario and in real environments illustrate the validity of the approach and compare it with other competing RIR measurement methods.
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