Abstract: An audio recording is subject to a number of possible distortions and artifacts. For example, the persistence of sound, due to multiple reflections from various surfaces in a room, causes temporal and spectral smearing of the recorded sound. This distortion is referred to as audio reverberation time. We describe a technique to model and estimate the amount of reverberation in an audio recording. Because reverberation depends on the shape and composition of a room, differences in the estimated reverberation can be used in a forensic and ballistic setting.

@inproceedings{malik-farid-icassp10,
  url          = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/publications/icassp10.pdf},
  booktitle    = {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing},
  author       = {Hafiz Malik and Hany Farid},
  location     = {Dallas, TX},
  year         = {2010},
  title        = {Audio forensics from acoustic reverberation},
  pages        = {1710-1713},
}