Building Audio-Visual Digital Twins with Smartphones
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