Echo-to-reverberation enhancement previously has been demonstrated using time reversal focusing when knowledge of the channel response between a target and the source array elements is available. In the absence of this knowledge, direct focusing is not possible. However, active reverberation nulling still is feasible given observations of reverberation from conventional source array transmissio...

In this paper a study of the acoustical response of a new built church is shown. This study is based on the measurement of reverberation time, adopting the noise interrupted method, according to the International Standard. This method allows to evaluate the reverberation time by means of acoustical sound level acquisition and analysis. The reverberation time is one of the principal parameters t...

This paper describes a highly versatile, low-cost reverberation system comprising two main elements: a computer for building and editing the desired reverberation effect impulse response, and a commercial DSP-based board, to run the algorithm in real-time, allowing the evaluation of the results. The main parameters of the reverberation algorithm can be modified by means of a dedicated graphic i...

We describe a technique for robust recognition of reverberated speech using the ‘missing data’ paradigm. Modulation filtering is used to identify time-frequency regions of the speech signal which are relatively uncontaminated by reverberation and contain strong speech energy; only these ‘reliable’ acoustic features are made directly available to the recogniser. The proposed system is evaluated ...

This contribution briefly reviews the reverberation mapping technique which leads to determination of black hole masses. I focus on the emerging relation between the broad-line region size and the active galactic nucleus (AGN) luminosity, and on an overview of recent results of reverberation mapping studies which are starting to cover the full AGN luminosity range. Preliminary results and time ...

Many multi-channel dereverberation and noise reduction techniques such as the multi-channel Wiener filter (MWF) require an estimate of the late reverberation and noise power spectral densities (PSDs). State-of-the-art multi-channel methods for estimating the late reverberation PSD typically assume that the noise PSD matrix is known. Instead of assuming that the noise PSD matrix is known, in thi...