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While the use of deep neural networks has significantly boosted speaker recognition performance, it is still challenging to separate speakers in poor acoustic environments. To improve robustness of speaker recognition system performance in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

The Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) consists of five audio classification and sound event detection tasks: 1) Acoustic scene classification, 2) General-purpose audio tagging of Freesound, 3) Bird audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Qiuqiang Kong , Turab Iqbal , Yong Xu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

This paper presents the Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification with Device Information Task of the DCASE 2025 Challenge, along with its baseline system. Continuing the focus on low-complexity models, data efficiency, and device…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Florian Schmid , Paul Primus , Toni Heittola , Annamaria Mesaros , Irene Martín-Morató , Gerhard Widmer

Audio tagging aims to label sound events appearing in an audio recording. In this paper, we propose region-specific audio tagging, a new task which labels sound events in a given region for spatial audio recorded by a microphone array. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Jinzheng Zhao , Yong Xu , Haohe Liu , Davide Berghi , Xinyuan Qian , Qiuqiang Kong , Junqi Zhao , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

In recent years, there has been remarkable progress in supervised image segmentation. Video segmentation is less explored, despite the temporal dimension being highly informative. Semantic labels, e.g. that cannot be accurately detected in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Radu Sibechi , Olaf Booij , Nora Baka , Peter Bloem

Audio-visual representation learning is an important task from the perspective of designing machines with the ability to understand complex events. To this end, we propose a novel multimodal framework that instantiates multiple instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Sanjeel Parekh , Slim Essid , Alexey Ozerov , Ngoc Q. K. Duong , Patrick Pérez , Gaël Richard

Multi-modal learning, particularly among imaging and linguistic modalities, has made amazing strides in many high-level fundamental visual understanding problems, ranging from language grounding to dense event captioning. However, much of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Tanzila Rahman , Bicheng Xu , Leonid Sigal

Learning semantic segmentation models requires a huge amount of pixel-wise labeling. However, labeled data may only be available abundantly in a domain different from the desired target domain, which only has minimal or no annotations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Sujoy Paul , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Samuel Schulter , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Manmohan Chandraker

In this report, we propose three novel methods for developing a sound event detection (SED) model for the DCASE 2024 Challenge Task 4. First, we propose an auxiliary decoder attached to the final convolutional block to improve feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Sang Won Son , Jongyeon Park , Hong Kook Kim , Sulaiman Vesal , Jeong Eun Lim

Generating precise class-aware pseudo ground-truths, a.k.a, class activation maps (CAMs), is essential for weakly-supervised semantic segmentation. The original CAM method usually produces incomplete and inaccurate localization maps. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Jinlong Li , Zequn Jie , Xu Wang , Xiaolin Wei , Lin Ma

We trained a deep all-convolutional neural network with masked global pooling to perform single-label classification for acoustic scene classification and multi-label classification for domestic audio tagging in the DCASE-2016 contest. Our…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Lars Hertel , Huy Phan , Alfred Mertins

Few-shot learning is a type of classification through which predictions are made based on a limited number of samples for each class. This type of classification is sometimes referred to as a meta-learning problem, in which the model learns…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Leah Chowenhill , Gaurav Satyanath , Shubhranshu Singh , Madhav Mahendra Wagh

Scribble-based weakly supervised semantic segmentation leverages only a few annotated pixels as labels to train a segmentation model, presenting significant potential for reducing the human labor involved in the annotation process. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Shuang Zeng , Hangzhou He , Ourui Fu , Zhengjian Yao , Zhaoheng Xie , Yanye Lu

We aim to localize objects in images using image-level supervision only. Previous approaches to this problem mainly focus on discriminative object regions and often fail to locate precise object boundaries. We address this problem by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Vadim Kantorov , Maxime Oquab , Minsu Cho , Ivan Laptev

Sound event detection with weakly labeled data is considered as a problem of multi-instance learning. And the choice of pooling function is the key to solving this problem. In this paper, we proposed a hierarchical pooling structure to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Ke-Xin He , Yu-Han Shen , Wei-Qiang Zhang

While the automatic recognition of musical instruments has seen significant progress, the task is still considered hard for music featuring multiple instruments as opposed to single instrument recordings. Datasets for polyphonic instrument…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Siddharth Gururani , Mohit Sharma , Alexander Lerch

Multi-channel audio alignment is a key requirement in bioacoustic monitoring, spatial audio systems, and acoustic localization. However, existing methods often struggle to address nonlinear clock drift and lack mechanisms for quantifying…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ragib Amin Nihal , Benjamin Yen , Takeshi Ashizawa , Kazuhiro Nakadai

This paper presents our work of training acoustic event detection (AED) models using unlabeled dataset. Recent acoustic event detectors are based on large-scale neural networks, which are typically trained with huge amounts of labeled data.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-01 Bowen Shi , Ming Sun , Chieh-Chi Kao , Viktor Rozgic , Spyros Matsoukas , Chao Wang

In this paper, we propose a temporal-frequential attention model for sound event detection (SED). Our network learns how to listen with two attention models: a temporal attention model and a frequential attention model. Proposed system…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yu-Han Shen , Ke-Xin He , Wei-Qiang Zhang

Supervised deep learning has been widely used in the studies of automatic ECG classification, which largely benefits from sufficient annotation of large datasets. However, most of the existing large ECG datasets are roughly annotated, so…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Yang Liu , Kuanquan Wang , Qince Li , Runnan He , Yongfeng Yuan , Henggui Zhang