torchrir 0.7.1

PyTorch-based room impulse response (RIR) simulation toolkit for static and dynamic scenes.

TorchRIR

A PyTorch-based room impulse response (RIR) simulation toolkit with a clean API and GPU support. This project has been developed with substantial assistance from Codex.

[!WARNING] TorchRIR is under active development and may contain bugs or breaking changes. Please validate results for your use case. If you find bugs or have feature requests, please open an issue. Contributions are welcome.

Installation

pip install torchrir

Library Comparison

Feature	torchrir	gpuRIR	pyroomacoustics	rir-generator
🎯 Dynamic Sources	✅	🟡 Single moving source	🟡 Manual loop	❌
🎤 Dynamic Microphones	✅	❌	🟡 Manual loop	❌
🖥️ CPU	✅	❌	✅	✅
🧮 CUDA	✅	✅	❌	❌
🍎 MPS	✅	❌	❌	❌
📊 Scene Plot	✅	❌	✅	❌
🎞️ Dynamic Scene GIF	✅	❌	🟡 Manual animation script	❌
🗂️ Dataset Build	✅	❌	✅	❌
🎛️ Signal Processing	❌ Scope out	❌	✅	❌
🧱 Non-shoebox Geometry	🚧 Candidate	❌	✅	❌
🌐 Geometric Acoustics	🚧 Candidate	❌	✅	❌

Legend: ✅ native support, 🟡 manual setup, 🚧 candidate (not yet implemented), ❌ unavailable

For detailed notes and equations, see Read the Docs: Library Comparisons.

CUDA CI (GitHub Actions)

• CUDA tests run in .github/workflows/cuda-ci.yml on a self-hosted runner with labels: self-hosted, linux, x64, cuda.
• The workflow validates installation via uv sync --group test, checks torch.cuda.is_available(), runs tests/test_device_parity.py with -k cuda, and then tries to install gpuRIR from GitHub.
• If gpuRIR installs successfully, the workflow runs tests/test_compare_gpurir.py (static + dynamic RIR comparisons). If installation fails, those comparison tests are skipped without failing the whole CUDA CI job.

Examples

• examples/static.py: fixed sources and microphones with configurable mic count (default: binaural).
  uv run python examples/static.py --plot
• examples/dynamic_src.py: moving sources, fixed microphones.
  uv run python examples/dynamic_src.py --plot
• examples/dynamic_mic.py: fixed sources, moving microphones.
  uv run python examples/dynamic_mic.py --plot
• examples/cli.py: unified CLI for static/dynamic scenes with JSON/YAML configs.
  uv run python examples/cli.py --mode static --plot
• examples/build_dynamic_dataset.py: small dynamic dataset generation script (CMU ARCTIC / LibriSpeech; fixed room/mics, randomized source motion).
  uv run python examples/build_dynamic_dataset.py --dataset cmu_arctic --num-scenes 4 --num-sources 2
• examples/benchmark_device.py: CPU/GPU benchmark for RIR simulation.
  uv run python examples/benchmark_device.py --dynamic

Dataset Notices

• For dataset attribution and redistribution notes, see THIRD_PARTY_DATASETS.md.

Core API Overview

• Geometry: Room, Source, MicrophoneArray
• Scene models: StaticScene, DynamicScene (Scene is deprecated)
• Static RIR: torchrir.sim.simulate_rir
• Dynamic RIR: torchrir.sim.simulate_dynamic_rir
• Simulator object: torchrir.sim.ISMSimulator(max_order=..., tmax=... | nsample=...)
• Dynamic convolution: torchrir.signal.DynamicConvolver
• Audio I/O:
  • wav-specific: torchrir.io.load_wav, torchrir.io.save_wav, torchrir.io.info_wav
  • backend-supported formats: torchrir.io.load_audio, torchrir.io.save_audio, torchrir.io.info_audio
  • metadata-preserving: torchrir.io.AudioData, torchrir.io.load_audio_data
• Metadata export: torchrir.io.build_metadata, torchrir.io.save_metadata_json

Module Layout (for contributors)

• torchrir.sim: simulation backends (ISM implementation lives under torchrir.sim.ism)
• torchrir.signal: convolution utilities and dynamic convolver
• torchrir.geometry: array geometries, sampling, trajectories
• torchrir.viz: plotting and animation helpers
• torchrir.models: room/scene/result data models
• torchrir.io: audio I/O and metadata serialization (*_wav for wav-only, *_audio for backend-supported formats)
• torchrir.util: shared math/tensor/device helpers
• torchrir.logging: logging utilities
• torchrir.config: simulation configuration objects

Design Notes

• Scene typing is explicit: use StaticScene for fixed geometry and DynamicScene for trajectory-based simulation.
• DynamicScene accepts tensor-like trajectories (e.g., lists) and normalizes them to tensors internally.
• Scene remains as a backward-compatibility wrapper and emits DeprecationWarning.
• Scene.validate() performs validation without emitting additional deprecation warnings.
• ISMSimulator fails fast when max_order or tmax conflicts with the provided SimulationConfig.
• Model dataclasses are frozen, but tensor payloads remain mutable (shallow immutability).
• torchrir.load / torchrir.save and torchrir.io.load / save / info are deprecated compatibility aliases.

from torchrir import MicrophoneArray, Room, Source
from torchrir.sim import simulate_rir
from torchrir.signal import DynamicConvolver

room = Room.shoebox(size=[6.0, 4.0, 3.0], fs=16000, beta=[0.9] * 6)
sources = Source.from_positions([[1.0, 2.0, 1.5]])
mics = MicrophoneArray.from_positions([[2.0, 2.0, 1.5]])

rir = simulate_rir(room=room, sources=sources, mics=mics, max_order=6, tmax=0.3)
# For dynamic scenes, compute rirs with torchrir.sim.simulate_dynamic_rir and convolve:
# y = DynamicConvolver(mode="trajectory").convolve(signal, rirs)

For detailed documentation: Read the Docs

Future Work

• Advanced room geometry pipeline beyond shoebox rooms (e.g., irregular polygons/meshes and boundary handling).
  Motivation: pyroomacoustics#393, pyroomacoustics#405
• General reflection/path capping controls (e.g., first-K, strongest-K, or energy-threshold-based path selection).
  Motivation: pyroomacoustics#338
• Microphone hardware response modeling (frequency response, sensitivity, and self-noise).
  Motivation: pyroomacoustics#394
• Near-field speech source modeling for more realistic close-talk scenarios.
  Motivation: pyroomacoustics#417
• Integrated 3D spatial response visualization (e.g., array/directivity beam-pattern rendering).
  Motivation: pyroomacoustics#397

Related Libraries

• gpuRIR
• Cross3D
• pyroomacoustics
• rir-generator