Estimation of acoustical room transfer functions

Presents a method to obtain room transfer functions for applications in the design of intelligent systems for video conferencing. In these applications the acoustical dynamics, for example, affects the quality of the recorded speech signal and the ability to achieve accurate source localization. The first part of the paper gives results on the identification of parameterized room transfer functions. The second part presents a method to extrapolate room transfer functions from the identified models. The extrapolation is achieved by getting a functional form of the transfer function parameters which depends on the speaker and the microphone locations