MRSAudio: A Large-Scale Multimodal Recorded Spatial Audio Dataset with Refined Annotations

Ke Xu (Beihang University) · Zhou Zhao (Zhejiang University) · Xintong Hu (Zhejiang University) · Wenxiang Guo (Zhejiang University) · Changhao Pan (Zhejiang University) · Zhiyuan Zhu (Zhejiang University) · Yu Zhang (HKUST) · Li Tang (Zhejiang University) · Rui Yang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) · Han Wang (Meta) · Zongbao Zhang (Zhejiang University of Technology) · Yuhan Wang (Zhejiang University) · Yixuan Chen (Zhejiang University) · Hankun Xu (Zhejiang University) · PengFei Fan (Zhejiang University) · ZheTao Chen (Zhejiang University) · Yanhao Yu (Zhejiang University) · Qiange Huang (Zhejiang University) · Fei Wu
ambisonic audioaudio spatializationbinaural audioegocentric videoexocentric videofine-grained annotationsimmersive technologiesmotion trajectoriesmultimodal datasetsmultisensory integrationsound event localizationspatial audiospatial audio generationspatial audio understandingspatial singing voice synthesis

Humans rely on multisensory integration to perceive spatial environments, where auditory cues enable sound source localization in three-dimensional space. Despite the critical role of spatial audio in immersive technologies such as VR/AR, most existing multimodal datasets provide only monaural audio, which limits the development of spatial audio generation and understanding. To address these challenges, we introduce MRSAudio, a large-scale multimodal spatial audio dataset designed to advance research in spatial audio understanding and generation. MRSAudio spans four distinct components: MRSLife, MRSSpeech, MRSMusic, and MRSSing, covering diverse real-world scenarios. The dataset includes synchronized binaural and ambisonic audio, exocentric and egocentric video, motion trajectories, and fine-grained annotations such as transcripts, phoneme boundaries, lyrics, scores, and prompts.To demonstrate the utility and versatility of MRSAudio, we establish five foundational tasks: audio spatialization, and spatial text to speech, spatial singing voice synthesis, spatial music generation and sound event localization and detection. Results show that MRSAudio enables high-quality spatial modeling and supports a broad range of spatial audio research.Demos and dataset access are available at https://mrsaudio.github.io.