RealImpact: A Dataset of Impact Sound Fields for Real Objects

Samuel Clarke, Ruohan Gao, Mason Wang, Mark Rau, Julia Xu, Jui-Hsien Wang, Doug L. James, Jiajun Wu; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023, pp. 1516-1525

Abstract


Objects make unique sounds under different perturbations, environment conditions, and poses relative to the listener. While prior works have modeled impact sounds and sound propagation in simulation, we lack a standard dataset of impact sound fields of real objects for audio-visual learning and calibration of the sim-to-real gap. We present RealImpact, a large-scale dataset of real object impact sounds recorded under controlled conditions. RealImpact contains 150,000 recordings of impact sounds of 50 everyday objects with detailed annotations, including their impact locations, microphone locations, contact force profiles, material labels, and RGBD images. We make preliminary attempts to use our dataset as a reference to current simulation methods for estimating object impact sounds that match the real world. Moreover, we demonstrate the usefulness of our dataset as a testbed for acoustic and audio-visual learning via the evaluation of two benchmark tasks, including listener location classification and visual acoustic matching.

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@InProceedings{Clarke_2023_CVPR, author = {Clarke, Samuel and Gao, Ruohan and Wang, Mason and Rau, Mark and Xu, Julia and Wang, Jui-Hsien and James, Doug L. and Wu, Jiajun}, title = {RealImpact: A Dataset of Impact Sound Fields for Real Objects}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, month = {June}, year = {2023}, pages = {1516-1525} }