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In this paper, we propose addressing the lack of strongly labeled data by using pseudo strongly labeled data approximated using Convolutive Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. Using this set of data, we then train a novel architecture called…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Teck Kai Chan , Cheng Siong Chin

Annotating time boundaries of sound events is labor-intensive, limiting the scalability of strongly supervised learning in audio detection. To reduce annotation costs, weakly-supervised learning with only clip-level labels has been widely…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Keisuke Imoto

Audio content analysis in terms of sound events is an important research problem for a variety of applications. Recently, the development of weak labeling approaches for audio or sound event detection (AED) and availability of large scale…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Ankit Shah , Anurag Kumar , Alexander G. Hauptmann , Bhiksha Raj

The Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events Challenge Task 4 aims to advance sound event detection (SED) systems in domestic environments by leveraging training data with different supervision uncertainty. Participants…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Samuele Cornell , Janek Ebbers , Constance Douwes , Irene Martín-Morató , Manu Harju , Annamaria Mesaros , Romain Serizel

The performances of Sound Event Detection (SED) systems are greatly limited by the difficulty in generating large strongly labeled dataset. In this work, we used two main approaches to overcome the lack of strongly labeled data. First, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Hyeonuk Nam , Byeong-Yun Ko , Gyeong-Tae Lee , Seong-Hu Kim , Won-Ho Jung , Sang-Min Choi , Yong-Hwa Park

Weakly Supervised Sound Event Detection (WSSED), which relies on audio tags without precise onset and offset times, has become prevalent due to the scarcity of strongly labeled data that includes exact temporal boundaries for events. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Yuliang Zhang , Defeng , Huang , Roberto Togneri

Acoustic event detection is essential for content analysis and description of multimedia recordings. The majority of current literature on the topic learns the detectors through fully-supervised techniques employing strongly labeled data.…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Anurag Kumar , Bhiksha Raj

Recent advances in generating synthetic captions based on audio and related metadata allow using the information contained in natural language as input for other audio tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel method to guide a sound event…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Manu Harju , Annamaria Mesaros

Audio Event Detection is an important task for content analysis of multimedia data. Most of the current works on detection of audio events is driven through supervised learning approaches. We propose a weakly supervised learning framework…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Anurag Kumar , Bhiksha Raj

In this paper, a combinative approach using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is proposed for audio clip Sound Event Detection (SED). The main idea begins with the use of NMF to approximate strong…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Chan Teck Kai , Chin Cheng Siong , Li Ye

This paper proposes a network architecture mainly designed for audio tagging, which can also be used for weakly supervised acoustic event detection (AED). The proposed network consists of a modified DenseNet as the feature extractor, and a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Chieh-Chi Kao , Bowen Shi , Ming Sun , Chao Wang

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 propose a novel learning framework called Supervised and Weakly Supervised Learning where the goal is to learn simultaneously from weakly and strongly labeled data. Strongly labeled data can be simply understood as fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Anurag Kumar , Bhiksha Raj

Sound event detection (SED) is the task of tagging the absence or presence of audio events and their corresponding interval within a given audio clip. While SED can be done using supervised machine learning, where training data is fully…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Heinrich Dinkel , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

In the last couple of years, weakly labeled learning has turned out to be an exciting approach for audio event detection. In this work, we introduce webly labeled learning for sound events which aims to remove human supervision altogether…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Anurag Kumar , Ankit Shah , Bhiksha Raj , Alex Hauptmann

Task 4 of the DCASE2018 challenge demonstrated that substantially more research is needed for a real-world application of sound event detection. Analyzing the challenge results it can be seen that most successful models are biased towards…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Heinrich Dinkel , Kai Yu

This report proposes a frequency dynamic convolution (FDY) with a large kernel attention (LKA)-convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN) with a pre-trained bidirectional encoder representation from audio transformers (BEATs)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Ji Won Kim , Sang Won Son , Yoonah Song , Hong Kook Kim , Il Hoon Song , Jeong Eun Lim

The main scientific question of this year DCASE challenge, Task 4 - Sound Event Detection in Domestic Environments, is to investigate the types of data (strongly labeled synthetic data, weakly labeled data, unlabeled in domain data)…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Teck Kai Chan , Cheng Siong Chin , Ye Li

The development of audio event recognition systems require labeled training data, which are generally hard to obtain. One promising source of recordings of audio events is the large amount of multimedia data on the web. In particular, if…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Anurag Kumar , Bhiksha Raj

This paper proposes a benchmark of submissions to Detection and Classification Acoustic Scene and Events 2021 Challenge (DCASE) Task 4 representing a sampling of the state-of-the-art in Sound Event Detection task. The submissions are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Francesca Ronchini , Romain Serizel