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We propose a new task for sound event detection (SED): sound event triage (SET). The goal of SET is to detect an arbitrary number of high-priority event classes while allowing misdetections of low-priority event classes where the priority…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Noriyuki Tonami , Keisuke Imoto

Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) combines the Sound Event Detection (SED) with the corresponding Direction Of Arrival (DOA). Recently, adopted event oriented multi-track methods affect the generality in polyphonic environments…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xueping Zhang , Yaxiong Chen , Ruilin Yao , Yunfei Zi , Shengwu Xiong

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

Sound Event Early Detection (SEED) is an essential task in recognizing the acoustic environments and soundscapes. However, most of the existing methods focus on the offline sound event detection, which suffers from the over-confidence issue…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xujiang Zhao , Xuchao Zhang , Wei Cheng , Wenchao Yu , Yuncong Chen , Haifeng Chen , Feng Chen

Overlapping sound events are ubiquitous in real-world environments, but existing end-to-end sound event detection (SED) methods still struggle to detect them effectively. A critical reason is that these methods represent overlapping events…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Yadong Guan , Jiqing Han , Hongwei Song , Wenjie Song , Guibin Zheng , Tieran Zheng , Yongjun He

This paper focuses on few-shot Sound Event Detection (SED), which aims to automatically recognize and classify sound events with limited samples. However, prevailing methods methods in few-shot SED predominantly rely on segment-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Liang Zou , Genwei Yan , Ruoyu Wang , Jun Du , Meng Lei , Tian Gao , Xin Fang

Polyphonic events are the main error source of audio event detection (AED) systems. In deep-learning context, the most common approach to deal with event overlaps is to treat the AED task as a multi-label classification problem. By doing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Huy Phan , Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Philipp Koch , Alfred Mertins

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

Sound event detection (SED) is the task of identifying sound events along with their onset and offset times. A recent, convolutional neural networks based SED method, proposed the usage of depthwise separable (DWS) and time-dilated…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Konstantinos Drossos , Stylianos I. Mimilakis , Tuomas Virtanen

Polyphonic sound event detection and localization (SELD) task is challenging because it is difficult to jointly optimize sound event detection (SED) and direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in the same network. We propose a general network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Ngoc Khanh Nguyen , Huy Phan , Lam Pham , Kenneth Ooi , Douglas L. Jones , Woon-Seng Gan

Sound Event Detection (SED) is challenging in noisy environments where overlapping sounds obscure target events. Language-queried audio source separation (LASS) aims to isolate the target sound events from a noisy clip. However, this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Han Yin , Yang Xiao , Jisheng Bai , Rohan Kumar Das

Sound event detection (SED) aims to detect when and recognize what sound events happen in an audio clip. Many supervised SED algorithms rely on strongly labelled data which contains the onset and offset annotations of sound events. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Qiuqiang Kong , Yong Xu , Iwona Sobieraj , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

While many deep learning methods on other domains have been applied to sound event detection (SED), differences between original domains of the methods and SED have not been appropriately considered so far. As SED uses audio data with two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-24 Hyeonuk Nam , Seong-Hu Kim , Deokki Min , Byeong-Yun Ko , Seung-Deok Choi , Yong-Hwa Park

Many methods of sound event detection (SED) based on machine learning regard a segmented time frame as one data sample to model training. However, the sound durations of sound events vary greatly depending on the sound event class, e.g.,…

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

Sound event detection (SED) entails two subtasks: recognizing what types of sound events are present in an audio stream (audio tagging), and pinpointing their onset and offset times (localization). In the popular multiple instance learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Yun Wang , Juncheng Li , Florian Metze

Sound event detection and sound event localization requires different features from audio input signals. While sound event detection mainly relies on time-frequency patterns to distinguish different event classes, sound event localization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 T. N. T. Nguyen , D. L. Jones , R. Ranjan , S. Jayabalan , W. S. Gan

Recently, an event-based end-to-end model (SEDT) has been proposed for sound event detection (SED) and achieves competitive performance. However, compared with the frame-based model, it requires more training data with temporal annotations…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zhirong Ye , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian , Rui Tao , Long Yan , Kazushige Ouchi

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

Recent literature has demonstrated that the use of per-channel energy normalization (PCEN), has significant performance improvements over traditional log-scaled mel-frequency spectrograms in acoustic sound event detection (SED) in a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Christopher Ick , Brian McFee