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Acoustic scene recordings are often collected from a diverse range of cities. Most existing acoustic scene classification (ASC) approaches focus on identifying common acoustic scene patterns across cities to enhance generalization. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yiqiang Cai , Yizhou Tan , Shengchen Li , Xi Shao , Mark D. Plumbley

The majority of sound scene analysis work focuses on one of two clearly defined tasks: acoustic scene classification or sound event detection. Whilst this separation of tasks is useful for problem definition, they inherently ignore some…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Helen L. Bear , Toni Heittola , Annamaria Mesaros , Emmanouil Benetos , Tuomas Virtanen

To improve device robustness, a highly desirable key feature of a competitive data-driven acoustic scene classification (ASC) system, a novel two-stage system based on fully convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is proposed. Our two-stage…

In this technical report, we present a joint effort of four groups, namely GT, USTC, Tencent, and UKE, to tackle Task 1 - Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) in the DCASE 2020 Challenge. Task 1 comprises two different sub-tasks: (i) Task 1a…

The current methodology in tackling Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) task can be described in two steps, preprocessing of the audio waveform into log-mel spectrogram and then using it as the input representation for Convolutional Neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Xing Yong Kek , Cheng Siong Chin , Ye Li

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) aims to classify the environment in which the audio signals are recorded. Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been successfully applied to ASC. However, the data distributions of the audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Zhao Ren , Qiuqiang Kong , Jing Han , Mark D. Plumbley , Björn W. Schuller

In this paper, we present deep learning frameworks for audio-visual scene classification (SC) and indicate how individual visual and audio features as well as their combination affect SC performance. Our extensive experiments, which are…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Lam Pham , Alexander Schindler , Mina Schütz , Jasmin Lampert , Sven Schlarb , Ross King

Acoustic scene classification is an automatic listening problem that aims to assign an audio recording to a pre-defined scene based on its audio data. Over the years (and in past editions of the DCASE) this problem has often been solved…

In this paper, we propose a sub-utterance unit selection framework to remove acoustic segments in audio recordings that carry little information for acoustic scene classification (ASC). Our approach is built upon a universal set of acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Hu Hu , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Yannan Wang , Xue Bai , Jun Du , Chin-Hui Lee

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) is one of the core research problems in the field of Computational Sound Scene Analysis. In this work, we present SubSpectralNet, a novel model which captures discriminative features by incorporating…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Sai Samarth R Phaye , Emmanouil Benetos , Ye Wang

Recent efforts have been made on acoustic scene classification in the audio signal processing community. In contrast, few studies have been conducted on acoustic scene clustering, which is a newly emerging problem. Acoustic scene clustering…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Yanxiong Li , Mingle Liu , Wucheng Wang , Yuhan Zhang , Qianhua He

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) is a crucial research problem in computational auditory scene analysis, and it aims to recognize the unique acoustic characteristics of an environment. One of the challenges of the ASC task is the domain…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Jisheng Bai , Mou Wang , Haohe Liu , Han Yin , Yafei Jia , Siwei Huang , Yutong Du , Dongzhe Zhang , Dongyuan Shi , Woon-Seng Gan , Mark D. Plumbley , Susanto Rahardja , Bin Xiang , Jianfeng Chen

We present an iVector based Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) system suited for real life settings where active foreground speech can be present. In the proposed system, each recording is represented by a fixed-length iVector that models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Siyuan Song , Brecht Desplanques , Celest De Moor , Kris Demuynck , Nilesh Madhu

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) aims to identify the type of scene (environment) in which a given audio signal is recorded. The log-mel feature and convolutional neural network (CNN) have recently become the most popular time-frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Yuzhong Wu , Tan Lee

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) identifies an environment based on an audio signal. This paper explores ASC in low-resource conditions and proposes a novel model, DS-FlexiNet, which combines depthwise separable convolutions from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Zhi Chen , Yun-Fei Shao , Yong Ma , Mingsheng Wei , Le Zhang , Wei-Qiang Zhang

Frequently misclassified pairs of classes that share many common acoustic properties exist in acoustic scene classification (ASC). To distinguish such pairs of classes, trivial details scattered throughout the data could be vital clues.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Hye-jin Shim , Jee-weon Jung , Ju-ho Kim , Ha-jin Yu

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) aims to classify an audio clip based on the characteristic of the recording environment. In this regard, deep learning based approaches have emerged as a useful tool for ASC problems. Conventional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Jianyuan Sun , Xubo Liu , Xinhao Mei , Jinzheng Zhao , Mark D. Plumbley , Volkan Kılıç , Wenwu Wang

We live in a rich and varied acoustic world, which is experienced by individuals or communities as a soundscape. Computational auditory scene analysis, disentangling acoustic scenes by detecting and classifying events, focuses on objective…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Yuanbo Hou , Qiaoqiao Ren , Andrew Mitchell , Wenwu Wang , Jian Kang , Tony Belpaeme , Dick Botteldooren

In Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) two major approaches have been followed . While one utilizes engineered features such as mel-frequency-cepstral-coefficients (MFCCs), the other uses learned features that are the outcome of an…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Bernhard Lehner , Matthias Dorfer , Gerhard Widmer

In the past, Acoustic Scene Classification systems have been based on hand crafting audio features that are input to a classifier. Nowadays, the common trend is to adopt data driven techniques, e.g., deep learning, where audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Eduardo Fonseca , Rong Gong , Xavier Serra