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A Multi-grained based Attention Network for Semi-supervised Sound Event Detection

Sound 2022-11-01 v1 Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

Sound event detection (SED) is an interesting but challenging task due to the scarcity of data and diverse sound events in real life. This paper presents a multi-grained based attention network (MGA-Net) for semi-supervised sound event detection. To obtain the feature representations related to sound events, a residual hybrid convolution (RH-Conv) block is designed to boost the vanilla convolution's ability to extract the time-frequency features. Moreover, a multi-grained attention (MGA) module is designed to learn temporal resolution features from coarse-level to fine-level. With the MGA module,the network could capture the characteristics of target events with short- or long-duration, resulting in more accurately determining the onset and offset of sound events. Furthermore, to effectively boost the performance of the Mean Teacher (MT) method, a spatial shift (SS) module as a data perturbation mechanism is introduced to increase the diversity of data. Experimental results show that the MGA-Net outperforms the published state-of-the-art competitors, achieving 53.27% and 56.96% event-based macro F1 (EB-F1) score, 0.709 and 0.739 polyphonic sound detection score (PSDS) on the validation and public set respectively.

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@article{arxiv.2206.10175,
  title  = {A Multi-grained based Attention Network for Semi-supervised Sound Event Detection},
  author = {Ying Hu and Xiujuan Zhu and Yunlong Li and Hao Huang and Liang He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10175},
  year   = {2022}
}
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