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Audio scene classification, the problem of predicting class labels of audio scenes, has drawn lots of attention during the last several years. However, it remains challenging and falls short of accuracy and efficiency. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Kele Xu , Dawei Feng , Haibo Mi , Boqing Zhu , Dezhi Wang , Lilun Zhang , Hengxing Cai , Shuwen Liu

Artificial sound event detection (SED) has the aim to mimic the human ability to perceive and understand what is happening in the surroundings. Nowadays, Deep Learning offers valuable techniques for this goal such as Convolutional Neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Fabio Vesperini , Leonardo Gabrielli , Emanuele Principi , Stefano Squartini

Drone detection has become an essential task in object detection as drone costs have decreased and drone technology has improved. It is, however, difficult to detect distant drones when there is weak contrast, long range, and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Fatih Cagatay Akyon , Erdem Akagunduz , Sinan Onur Altinuc , Alptekin Temizel

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) usage is expected to surge in the coming decade, raising the need for heightened security measures to prevent airspace violations and security threats. This study investigates deep learning approaches to UAV…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Andrew P. Berg , Qian Zhang , Mia Y. Wang

While deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved impressive success in image denoising with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), their performance remains limited on real-world noisy photographs. The main reason is that their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Shi Guo , Zifei Yan , Kai Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

This report presents our audio event detection system submitted for Task 2, "Detection of rare sound events", of DCASE 2017 challenge. The proposed system is based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and deep neural networks (DNNs)…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Huy Phan , Martin Krawczyk-Becker , Timo Gerkmann , Alfred Mertins

In this paper, we demonstrate a unique recipe to enhance the effectiveness of audio machine learning approaches by fusing pre-processing techniques into a deep learning model. Our solution accelerates training and inference performance by…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Devesh Khandelwal , Sean Campos , Shwetha Nagaraj , Fred Nugen , Alberto Todeschini

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) recognition rates drop in the presence of noise. We demonstrate a novel method of counteracting this drop in recognition rate by adjusting the biases of the neurons in the convolutional layers according to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-06 James R. Geraci , Parichay Kapoor

In this paper, we summarize recent progresses made in deep learning based acoustic models and the motivation and insights behind the surveyed techniques. We first discuss acoustic models that can effectively exploit variable-length…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-30 Dong Yu , Jinyu Li

The introduction of large-scale audio datasets, such as AudioSet, paved the way for Transformers to conquer the audio domain and replace CNNs as the state-of-the-art neural network architecture for many tasks. Audio Spectrogram Transformers…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Florian Schmid , Khaled Koutini , Gerhard Widmer

This paper describes the extension and optimization of our previous work on very deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for effective recognition of noisy speech in the Aurora 4 task. The appropriate number of convolutional layers, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Yanmin Qian , Philip C Woodland

Conventional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in the real domain have been widely used for audio classification. However, their convolution operations process multi-channel inputs independently, limiting the ability to capture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-27 Arshdeep Singh , Vinayak Abrol , Mark D. Plumbley

In this paper, we propose a framework for environmental sound classification in a low-data context (less than 100 labeled examples per class). We show that using pre-trained image classification models along with the usage of data…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Sainath Adapa

In the field of wildlife observation and conservation, approaches involving machine learning on audio recordings are becoming increasingly popular. Unfortunately, available datasets from this field of research are often not optimal learning…

Benefit from large-scale training datasets, deep Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs) have achieved impressive results in face recognition(FR). However, tremendous scale of datasets inevitably lead to noisy data, which obviously reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Wei Hu , Yangyu Huang , Fan Zhang , Ruirui Li

Effective conservation of maritime environments and wildlife management of endangered species require the implementation of efficient, accurate and scalable solutions for environmental monitoring. Ecoacoustics offers the advantages of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Burla Nur Korkmaz , Roee Diamant , Gil Danino , Alberto Testolin

Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in the application of persistent homology, a topological tool for data analysis, to machine learning problems. Persistent homology is known for its ability to numerically characterize the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Jen-Yu Liu , Shyh-Kang Jeng , Yi-Hsuan Yang

This paper introduces WrenNet, an efficient neural network enabling real-time multi-species bird audio classification on low-power microcontrollers for scalable biodiversity monitoring. We propose a semi-learnable spectral feature extractor…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in a variety of computer vision tasks, where massive labeled images are routinely required for model optimization. Yet, the data collected from the open world are unavoidably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Peng Cui , Yang Yue , Zhijie Deng , Jun Zhu

In computer vision, convolutional neural networks (CNN) such as ConvNeXt, have been able to surpass state-of-the-art transformers, partly thanks to depthwise separable convolutions (DSC). DSC, as an approximation of the regular convolution,…