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In sound event detection (SED), overlapping sound events pose a significant challenge, as certain events can be easily masked by background noise or other events, resulting in poor detection performance. To address this issue, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Han Yin , Jisheng Bai , Yang Xiao , Hui Wang , Siqi Zheng , Yafeng Chen , Rohan Kumar Das , Chong Deng , Jianfeng Chen

In recent years, exploring effective sound separation (SSep) techniques to improve overlapping sound event detection (SED) attracts more and more attention. Creating accurate separation signals to avoid the catastrophic error accumulation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Yunhao Liang , Yanhua Long , Yijie Li , Jiaen Liang

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) and Sound Event Detection (SED) are two separate tasks in the field of computational sound scene analysis. In this work, we present a new dataset with both sound scene and sound event labels and use this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Helen L. Bear , Ines Nolasco , Emmanouil Benetos

Sound Event Detection (SED) detects regions of sound events, while Speaker Diarization (SD) segments speech conversations attributed to individual speakers. In SED, all speaker segments are classified as a single speech event, while in SD,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Yidi Jiang , Ruijie Tao , Wen Huang , Qian Chen , Wen Wang

This paper introduces a novel dataset for polyphonic sound event detection in urban sound monitoring use-cases. Based on isolated sounds taken from the FSD50k dataset, 20,000 polyphonic soundscapes are synthesized with sounds being randomly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Jakob Abeßer

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

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) systems estimate both the direction-of-arrival (DOA) and class of sound sources over time. In the DCASE 2022 SELD Challenge (Task 3), models are designed to operate in a 4-channel setting. While…

This paper describes that semi-supervised learning called peer collaborative learning (PCL) can be applied to the polyphonic sound event detection (PSED) task, which is one of the tasks in the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Hayato Endo , Hiromitsu Nishizaki

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) aims to predict the temporal boundaries of all the events of interest and their class labels, given an unconstrained audio sample. Taking either the splitand-classify (i.e., frame-level) strategy or the more…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Swapnil Bhosale , Sauradip Nag , Diptesh Kanojia , Jiankang Deng , Xiatian Zhu

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

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

Sound event detection (SED) is an active area of audio research that aims to detect the temporal occurrence of sounds. In this paper, we apply SED to engine fault detection by introducing a multimodal SED framework that detects fine-grained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Dennis Fedorishin , Livio Forte , Philip Schneider , Srirangaraj Setlur , Venu Govindaraju

In this paper, a special decision surface for the weakly-supervised sound event detection (SED) and a disentangled feature (DF) for the multi-label problem in polyphonic SED are proposed. We approach SED as a multiple instance learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Liwei Lin , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian

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

Sound Event Detection (SED) plays a vital role in audio understanding, with applications in surveillance, smart cities, healthcare, and multimedia indexing. However, conventional SED systems operate under a closed-world assumption, limiting…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-22 P. H. Hai , L. T. Minh , L. H. Son

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

While multitask and transfer learning has shown to improve the performance of neural networks in limited data settings, they require pretraining of the model on large datasets beforehand. In this paper, we focus on improving the performance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Soham Deshmukh , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

Polyphonic sound event localization and detection (SELD) aims at detecting types of sound events with corresponding temporal activities and spatial locations. In this paper, a track-wise ensemble event independent network with a novel data…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Qiuqiang Kong , Feiran Yang , Mark D. Plumbley , Jun Yang

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