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Sound Event Detection and Separation: a Benchmark on Desed Synthetic Soundscapes

Sound 2020-11-03 v1 Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

We propose a benchmark of state-of-the-art sound event detection systems (SED). We designed synthetic evaluation sets to focus on specific sound event detection challenges. We analyze the performance of the submissions to DCASE 2021 task 4 depending on time related modifications (time position of an event and length of clips) and we study the impact of non-target sound events and reverberation. We show that the localization in time of sound events is still a problem for SED systems. We also show that reverberation and non-target sound events are severely degrading the performance of the SED systems. In the latter case, sound separation seems like a promising solution.

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@article{arxiv.2011.00801,
  title  = {Sound Event Detection and Separation: a Benchmark on Desed Synthetic Soundscapes},
  author = {Nicolas Turpault and Romain Serizel and Scott Wisdom and Hakan Erdogan and John Hershey and Eduardo Fonseca and Prem Seetharaman and Justin Salamon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.00801},
  year   = {2020}
}