Simulation of room acoustic response for arbitrary selection of receiver-source position

This study investigates the potentials of acoustic virtual navigation in a room/place through an acoustic simulation of the space’s response for different source and receiver positions. The usefulness of this functionality is to provide indicative information regarding, on the one hand, the suitability of the place for conducting recordings, and on the other hand, its qualitative characteristics for aiding acoustic design. The acoustic simulation is based on conducting recordings in a place with the aim of creating large and dynamic repositories with the participation of many different users. These requirements justify a compromise in the fidelity and accuracy of the measurements, which must be executable by non-expert users with accessible equipment. Although numerous measurements were conducted by the research team, this study examines, at an initial experimental stage, the methodology for simulating the response at a specific source- receiver position based on response data from pre-existing space measurements, to pilot-test the validity of the overall project