Building Audio-Visual Digital Twins with Smartphones

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Authors: Zhijun Lan, Yiwei Tang, Yuhan Wang, Haowen Lai, Yiduo Hao, M.Z. Zhao
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Abstract

Digital twins today are almost entirely visual, overlooking acoustics—a core component of spatial realism and interaction. We introduce AV-Twin, the first practical system that constructs editable audio-visual digital twins using only commodity smartphones. AV-Twin combines mobile RIR capture and a visual-assisted acoustic field model to efficiently reconstruct room acoustics. It further recovers per-surface material properties through differentiable acoustic rendering, enabling users to modify materials, geometry, and layout while automatically updating both audio and visuals. Together, these capabilities establish a practical path toward fully modifiable audio-visual digital twins for real-world environments. We provide a demo video for our system at https://youtu.be/k31nKDRhJJw.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Music Technology and Sound Studies Tactile and Sensory Interactions Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation

Publication details

Journal / source
Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services
Publisher
ACM
Pages
825–838
Publication date
29 May 2026