Data-driven statistical modelling of room impulse responses in the power domain

Having an accurate statistical model of room impulse responses with a minimum number of parameters is of crucial importance in applications such as dereverberation. In this paper, by taking into account the behaviour of the early reflections, we extend the widely-used statistical model proposed by Polack. The squared room impulse response is modelled in each frequency band as the realisation of a stochastic process weighted by the sum of two exponential decays. Room-independent values for the new parameters involved are obtained through analysis of several room impulse response databases, and validation of the model in the likelihood sense is performed.