Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Reverberation-the persistence of sound in a cavity due to reflections-is a frequency-dependent phenomenon central to spatial audio and acoustic design.In this work, we draw an analogy with cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED), where light waves confined in cavities interact with matter through distance-dependent dipolar couplings mediated by virtual photons.Inspired by this framework, we propose a novel method for simulating acoustic reverberation using a ray-based model [1] inspired by quantum dipolar interactions [2].Traditional ray-tracing models often rely on fixed or empirical reflection coefficients, which do not capture the spatially varying interaction strengths characteristic of CQED.To address this, we introduce quantum-inspired interaction models translated into distance-dependent gain functions.These functions are embedded into a 2D geometric ray tracing engine to compute synthetic impulse responses in a rectangular cavity.A comparison of the impulse responses across four interaction models demonstrates that stronger distance dependence results in sharper attenuation of late reflections.This approach offers a new perspective for physically grounded, tunable reverberation modeling with potential applications in sound synthesis and cross-domain analog simulations.
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7117291364