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This report presents our systems submitted to the audio-only and audio-visual tracks of the DCASE2025 Task 3 Challenge: Stereo Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) in Regular Video Content. SELD is a complex task that combines…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Davide Berghi , Philip J. B. Jackson

Sound event detection systems typically consist of two stages: extracting hand-crafted features from the raw audio waveform, and learning a mapping between these features and the target sound events using a classifier. Recently, the focus…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Emre Çakır , Tuomas Virtanen

Temporal detection problems appear in many fields including time-series estimation, activity recognition and sound event detection (SED). In this work, we propose a new approach to temporal event modeling by explicitly modeling event onsets…

Sound event detection (SED) and localization refer to recognizing sound events and estimating their spatial and temporal locations. Using neural networks has become the prevailing method for SED. In the area of sound localization, which is…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Yin Cao , Qiuqiang Kong , Turab Iqbal , Fengyan An , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) combines the Sound Event Detection (SED) with the corresponding Direction Of Arrival (DOA). Recently, adopted event oriented multi-track methods affect the generality in polyphonic environments…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xueping Zhang , Yaxiong Chen , Ruilin Yao , Yunfei Zi , Shengwu Xiong

The goal of automatic sound event detection (SED) methods is to recognize what is happening in an audio signal and when it is happening. In practice, the goal is to recognize at what temporal instances different sounds are active within an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Annamaria Mesaros , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen , Mark D. Plumbley

This paper focuses on few-shot Sound Event Detection (SED), which aims to automatically recognize and classify sound events with limited samples. However, prevailing methods methods in few-shot SED predominantly rely on segment-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Liang Zou , Genwei Yan , Ruoyu Wang , Jun Du , Meng Lei , Tian Gao , Xin Fang

Recent literature has demonstrated that the use of per-channel energy normalization (PCEN), has significant performance improvements over traditional log-scaled mel-frequency spectrograms in acoustic sound event detection (SED) in a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Christopher Ick , Brian McFee

Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) is a problem related to the field of machine listening whose objective is to recognize individual sound events, detect their temporal activity, and estimate their spatial location. Thanks to the…

Joint sound event localization and detection (SELD) is an emerging audio signal processing task adding spatial dimensions to acoustic scene analysis and sound event detection. A popular approach to modeling SELD jointly is using…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) consists of two subtasks, which are sound event detection and direction-of-arrival estimation. While sound event detection mainly relies on time-frequency patterns to distinguish different sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Karn N. Watcharasupat , Ngoc Khanh Nguyen , Douglas L. Jones , Woon-Seng Gan

Sound events often occur in unstructured environments where they exhibit wide variations in their frequency content and temporal structure. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are able to extract higher level features that are invariant to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Emre Çakır , Giambattista Parascandolo , Toni Heittola , Heikki Huttunen , Tuomas Virtanen

Identification and localization of sounds are both integral parts of computational auditory scene analysis. Although each can be solved separately, the goal of forming coherent auditory objects and achieving a comprehensive spatial scene…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Ivo Trowitzsch , Christopher Schymura , Dorothea Kolossa , Klaus Obermayer

Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) is crucial in spatial audio processing, enabling systems to detect sound events and estimate their 3D directions. Existing SELD methods use single- or dual-branch architectures: single-branch…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hogeon Yu

In conventional sound event detection (SED) models, two types of events, namely, those that are present and those that do not occur in an acoustic scene, are regarded as the same type of events. The conventional SED methods cannot…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Noriyuki Tonami , Keisuke Imoto , Yuki Okamoto , Takahiro Fukumori , Yoichi Yamashita

The understanding of the surrounding environment plays a critical role in autonomous robotic systems, such as self-driving cars. Extensive research has been carried out concerning visual perception. Yet, to obtain a more complete perception…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-13 Karim Guirguis , Christoph Schorn , Andre Guntoro , Sherif Abdulatif , Bin Yang

Sound event detection (SED) is a task to detect sound events in an audio recording. One challenge of the SED task is that many datasets such as the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) datasets are weakly…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Qiuqiang Kong , Yong Xu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

The challenges of polyphonic sound event detection (PSED) stem from the detection of multiple overlapping events in a time series. Recent efforts exploit Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on Time-Frequency Representations (TFRs) of audio clips as…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Wangkai Jin , Junyu Liu , Jianfeng Ren , Xiangjun Peng

Some studies have revealed that contexts of scenes (e.g., "home," "office," and "cooking") are advantageous for sound event detection (SED). Mobile devices and sensing technologies give useful information on scenes for SED without the use…

In this paper we investigate the importance of the extent of memory in sequential self attention for sound recognition. We propose to use a memory controlled sequential self attention mechanism on top of a convolutional recurrent neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Arjun Pankajakshan , Helen L. Bear , Vinod Subramanian , Emmanouil Benetos