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Detecting medical conditions from speech acoustics is fundamentally a weakly-supervised learning problem: a single, often noisy, session-level label must be linked to nuanced patterns within a long, complex audio recording. This task is…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xingyuan Li , Mengyue Wu

This paper presents the objective, dataset, baseline, and metrics of Task 3 of the DCASE2025 Challenge on sound event localization and detection (SELD). In previous editions, the challenge used four-channel audio formats of first-order…

This paper proposes an active learning system for sound event detection (SED). It aims at maximizing the accuracy of a learned SED model with limited annotation effort. The proposed system analyzes an initially unlabeled audio dataset, from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Shuyang Zhao , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

Few-shot sound event detection is the task of detecting sound events, despite having only a few labelled examples of the class of interest. This framework is particularly useful in bioacoustics, where often there is a need to annotate very…

Weakly supervised learning is a popular approach for training machine learning models in low-resource settings. Instead of requesting high-quality yet costly human annotations, it allows training models with noisy annotations obtained from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Dawei Zhu , Xiaoyu Shen , Marius Mosbach , Andreas Stephan , Dietrich Klakow

Label noise is emerging as a pressing issue in sound event classification. This arises as we move towards larger datasets that are difficult to annotate manually, but it is even more severe if datasets are collected automatically from…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Eduardo Fonseca , Frederic Font , Xavier Serra

Self-training is an important technique for solving semi-supervised learning problems. It leverages unlabeled data by generating pseudo-labels and combining them with a limited labeled dataset for training. The effectiveness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Banghua Zhu , Mingyu Ding , Philip Jacobson , Ming Wu , Wei Zhan , Michael Jordan , Jiantao Jiao

Many success stories involving deep neural networks are instances of supervised learning, where available labels power gradient-based learning methods. Creating such labels, however, can be expensive and thus there is increasing interest in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Sebastian Ewert , Mark B. Sandler

Training deep neural networks with noisy labels remains a significant challenge, often leading to degraded performance. Existing methods for handling label noise typically rely on either transition matrix, noise detection, or meta-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhanhui Lin , Yanlin Liu , Sanping Zhou

Sound event localization and detection is a novel area of research that emerged from the combined interest of analyzing the acoustic scene in terms of the spatial and temporal activity of sounds of interest. This paper presents an overview…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Archontis Politis , Annamaria Mesaros , Sharath Adavanne , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

In this paper, we study the problem of learning from weakly labeled data, where labels of the training examples are incomplete. This includes, for example, (i) semi-supervised learning where labels are partially known; (ii) multi-instance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yu-Feng Li , Ivor W. Tsang , James T. Kwok , Zhi-Hua Zhou

The lack of strong labels has severely limited the state-of-the-art fully supervised audio tagging systems to be scaled to larger dataset. Meanwhile, audio-visual learning models based on unlabeled videos have been successfully applied to…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Juncheng Li , Yun Wang , Joseph Szurley , Florian Metze , Samarjit Das

Detection and Classification Acoustic Scene and Events Challenge 2021 Task 4 uses a heterogeneous dataset that includes both recorded and synthetic soundscapes. Until recently only target sound events were considered when synthesizing the…

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

Polyphonic Sound Event Detection (SED) in real-world recordings is a challenging task because of the dynamic polyphony level, intensity, and duration of sound events. Current polyphonic SED systems fail to model the temporal structure of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-02 Arjun Pankajakshan , Helen L. Bear , Emmanouil Benetos

Weakly-supervised text classification trains a classifier using the label name of each target class as the only supervision, which largely reduces human annotation efforts. Most existing methods first use the label names as static…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Yunyi Zhang , Minhao Jiang , Yu Meng , Yu Zhang , Jiawei Han

Few-shot bioacoustic event detection is a task that detects the occurrence time of a novel sound given a few examples. Previous methods employ metric learning to build a latent space with the labeled part of different sound classes, also…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Haohe Liu , Xubo Liu , Xinhao Mei , Qiuqiang Kong , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Deep learning with noisy labels is an interesting challenge in weakly supervised learning. Despite their significant learning capacity, CNNs have a tendency to overfit in the presence of samples with noisy labels. Alleviating this issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yan Han , Soumava Kumar Roy , Mehrtash Harandi , Lars Petersson

The SAFE Challenge evaluates synthetic speech detection across three tasks: unmodified audio, processed audio with compression artifacts, and laundered audio designed to evade detection. We systematically explore self-supervised learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Hashim Ali , Surya Subramani , Lekha Bollinani , Nithin Sai Adupa , Sali El-Loh , Hafiz Malik

Ontologies encompass a formal representation of knowledge through the definition of concepts or properties of a domain, and the relationships between those concepts. In this work, we seek to investigate whether using this ontological…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Larry Tang , Po Hao Chou , Yi Yu Zheng , Ziqian Ge , Ankit Shah , Bhiksha Raj

Supervised ASR models have reached unprecedented levels of accuracy, thanks in part to ever-increasing amounts of labelled training data. However, in many applications and locales, only moderate amounts of data are available, which has led…