Hybrid method for numerical simulation of room acoustics with auralization: part 1 - theoretical and numerical aspects

A new hybrid simulation method for room acoustics is presented. It is grounded on two well known numerical simulation techniques for room acoustics. The hybrid method takes geometric acoustics for granted and uses an improved version of the classical ray-tracing technique for computing the specular reflections and a slightly modified energy transition method for simulating the diffuse reflections. The impulse responses (IRs) are then computed by superposition of the specular and diffuse ones. The reverberant part of the IRs gains a much more realistic aspect than the one obtained from either o...