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A multi-room reverberant dataset for sound event localization and detection

Sound 2019-05-27 v2 Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

This paper presents the sound event localization and detection (SELD) task setup for the DCASE 2019 challenge. The goal of the SELD task is to detect the temporal activities of a known set of sound event classes, and further localize them in space when active. As part of the challenge, a synthesized dataset with each sound event associated with a spatial coordinate represented using azimuth and elevation angles is provided. These sound events are spatialized using real-life impulse responses collected at multiple spatial coordinates in five different rooms with varying dimensions and material properties. A baseline SELD method employing a convolutional recurrent neural network is used to generate benchmark scores for this reverberant dataset. The benchmark scores are obtained using the recommended cross-validation setup.

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@article{arxiv.1905.08546,
  title  = {A multi-room reverberant dataset for sound event localization and detection},
  author = {Sharath Adavanne and Archontis Politis and Tuomas Virtanen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.08546},
  year   = {2019}
}