Roomprints for forensic audio applications

Abstract

A roomprint is a quantifiable description of an acoustic environment which can be measured under controlled conditions and estimated from a monophonic recording made in that space. We here identify the properties required of a roomprint in forensic audio applications and review the observable characteristics of a room that, when extracted from recordings, could form the basis of a room-print. Frequency-dependent reverberation time is investigated as a promising characteristic and used in a room identification experiment giving correct identification in 96% of trials.