eess.ASJun 3, 2026

Masked Wavelet Scattering Transform Neural Field for Sound Field Reconstruction

Authors: Xinmeng LuanSamuel A. VerburgEfren Fernandez-GrandeGary Scavone

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a reconstruction framework that leverages the Wavelet Scattering Transform (WST) as a multi-scale feature extractor to impose statistical priors under sparse observation conditions. The reconstruction problem is formulated as an optimization task and solved using a neural field, with the WST incorporated into the training loss function. As a proof of concept, we validate the proposed method on HRTF upsampling. A masking strategy is applied to the WST coefficients, resulting in a two-phase procedure. The first phase learns a binary mask from a small multi-subject dataset, while the second phase applies the learned mask to the WST coefficients of an individual HRTF to preserve informative statistical structures during reconstruction. Validation against baseline methods, which also serve as an ablation study of the different components of the framework, demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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