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In this paper, we describe in detail the system we submitted to DCASE2019 task 4: sound event detection (SED) in domestic environments. We employ a convolutional neural network (CNN) with an embedding-level attention pooling module to solve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Liwei Lin , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian

Sound event detection (SED) is a hot topic in consumer and smart city applications. Existing approaches based on Deep Neural Networks are very effective, but highly demanding in terms of memory, power, and throughput when targeting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Gianmarco Cerutti , Renzo Andri , Lukas Cavigelli , Michele Magno , Elisabetta Farella , Luca Benini

Sound event detection is the task of recognizing sounds and determining their extent (onset/offset times) within an audio clip. Existing systems commonly predict sound presence confidence in short time frames. Then, thresholding produces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Janek Ebbers , Francois G. Germain , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

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

A significant challenge in sound event detection (SED) is the effective utilization of unlabeled data, given the limited availability of labeled data due to high annotation costs. Semi-supervised algorithms rely on labeled data to learn…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Pengfei Cai , Yan Song , Nan Jiang , Qing Gu , Ian McLoughlin

This technical report outlines our approach to Task 3A of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2024, focusing on Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). SELD provides valuable insights by estimating…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Quoc Thinh Vo , David Han

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…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Sharath Adavanne , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

Sound event detection (SED) often suffers from the data deficiency problem. The recent baseline system in the DCASE2023 challenge task 4 leverages the large pretrained self-supervised learning (SelfSL) models to mitigate such restriction,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-01 Nian Shao , Xian Li , Xiaofei Li

We present a new framework SoundDet, which is an end-to-end trainable and light-weight framework, for polyphonic moving sound event detection and localization. Prior methods typically approach this problem by preprocessing raw waveform into…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yuhang He , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

The study of label noise in sound event recognition has recently gained attention with the advent of larger and noisier datasets. This work addresses the problem of missing labels, one of the big weaknesses of large audio datasets, and one…

Weakly supervised learning algorithms are critical for scaling audio event detection to several hundreds of sound categories. Such learning models should not only disambiguate sound events efficiently with minimal class-specific annotation…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Anurag Kumar , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu

This work explores domain generalization (DG) for sound event detection (SED), advancing adaptability to real-world scenarios. Our approach employs a mean-teacher framework with domain generalization named DG-SED to integrate heterogeneous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Yang Xiao , Han Yin , Jisheng Bai , Rohan Kumar Das

Polyphonic sound event detection (polyphonic SED) is an interesting but challenging task due to the concurrence of multiple sound events. Recently, SED methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) and recurrent neural networks (RNN)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-24 Yaming Liu , Jian Tang , Yan Song , Lirong Dai

In many methods of sound event detection (SED), a segmented time frame is regarded as one data sample to model training. The durations of sound events greatly depend on the sound event class, e.g., the sound event "fan" has a long duration,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Keisuke Imoto , Sakiko Mishima , Yumi Arai , Reishi Kondo

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

Ambient sound scenes typically comprise multiple short events occurring on top of a somewhat stationary background. We consider the task of separating these events from the background, which we call foreground-background ambient sound scene…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Michel Olvera , Emmanuel Vincent , Romain Serizel , Gilles Gasso

This paper presents a new learning strategy for the Sound Event Detection (SED) system to tackle the issues of i) knowledge migration from a pre-trained model to a new target model and ii) learning new sound events without forgetting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Eunjeong Koh , Fatemeh Saki , Yinyi Guo , Cheng-Yu Hung , Erik Visser

We describe a novel weakly labeled Audio Event Classification approach based on a self-supervised attention model. The weakly labeled framework is used to eliminate the need for expensive data labeling procedure and self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-09 Bongjun Kim , Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation strives to distinguish pixels into different semantic groups from an open set of categories. Most existing methods explore utilizing pre-trained vision-language models, in which the key is to adopt the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Bin Xie , Jiale Cao , Jin Xie , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Yanwei Pang

Audio-Visual Event Localization (AVEL) is the task of temporally localizing and classifying \emph{audio-visual events}, i.e., events simultaneously visible and audible in a video. In this paper, we solve AVEL in a weakly-supervised setting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Kalyan Ramakrishnan