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The Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) consists of five audio classification and sound event detection tasks: 1) Acoustic scene classification, 2) General-purpose audio tagging of Freesound, 3) Bird audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Qiuqiang Kong , Turab Iqbal , Yong Xu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

This thesis focuses on dealing with the task of acoustic scene classification (ASC), and then applied the techniques developed for ASC to a real-life application of detecting respiratory disease. To deal with ASC challenges, this thesis…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Lam Pham

Recently, a variety of acoustic tasks and related applications arised. For many acoustic tasks, the labeled data size may be limited. To handle this problem, we propose an unsupervised pre-training method using Transformer based encoder to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Ruixiong Zhang , Haiwei Wu , Wubo Li , Dongwei Jiang , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li

Acoustic scene classification identifies an input segment into one of the pre-defined classes using spectral information. The spectral information of acoustic scenes may not be mutually exclusive due to common acoustic properties across…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-18 Hee-Soo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Hye-jin Shim , Ha-Jin Yu

This report presents a dual-level knowledge distillation framework with multi-teacher guidance for low-complexity acoustic scene classification (ASC) in DCASE2025 Task 1. We propose a distillation strategy that jointly transfers both soft…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Haowen Li , Ziyi Yang , Mou Wang , Ee-Leng Tan , Junwei Yeow , Santi Peksi , Woon-Seng Gan

Anomalous Sound Detection (ASD) is often formulated as a machine attribute classification task, a strategy necessitated by the common scenario where only normal data is available for training. However, the exhaustive collection of machine…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xin Fang , Guirui Zhong , Qing Wang , Fan Chu , Lei Wang , Mengui Qian , Mingqi Cai , Jiangzhao Wu , Jianqing Gao , Jun Du

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

A general problem in acoustic scene classification task is the mismatched conditions between training and testing data, which significantly reduces the performance of the developed methods on classification accuracy. As a countermeasure, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-20 Shayan Gharib , Konstantinos Drossos , Emre Çakir , Dmitriy Serdyuk , Tuomas Virtanen

This technical report describes the CP-JKU team's submission for Task 4 Sound Event Detection with Heterogeneous Training Datasets and Potentially Missing Labels of the DCASE 24 Challenge. We fine-tune three large Audio Spectrogram…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Florian Schmid , Paul Primus , Tobias Morocutti , Jonathan Greif , Gerhard Widmer

In this paper, we propose an effective sound event detection (SED) method based on the audio spectrogram transformer (AST) model, pretrained on the large-scale AudioSet for audio tagging (AT) task, termed AST-SED. Pretrained AST models have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Kang Li , Yan Song , Li-Rong Dai , Ian McLoughlin , Xin Fang , Lin Liu

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices equipped with acoustic sensors necessitates robust acoustic scene classification (ASC) capabilities, even in noisy and data-limited environments. Traditional machine learning methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Minh K. Quan , Mayuri Wijayasundara , Sujeeva Setunge , Pubudu N. Pathirana

A challenging problem in deep learning-based machine listening field is the degradation of the performance when using data from unseen conditions. In this paper we focus on the acoustic scene classification (ASC) task and propose an…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Konstantinos Drossos , Paul Magron , Tuomas Virtanen

Acoustic event classification (AEC) and acoustic event detection (AED) refer to the task of detecting whether specific target events occur in audios. As long short-term memory (LSTM) leads to state-of-the-art results in various speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Chieh-Chi Kao , Ming Sun , Weiran Wang , Chao Wang

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 industry, machine anomalous sound detection (ASD) is in great demand. However, collecting enough abnormal samples is difficult due to the high cost, which boosts the rapid development of unsupervised ASD algorithms. Autoencoder (AE)…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Yifan Zhou , Dongxing Xu , Haoran Wei , Yanhua Long

We present an iVector based Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) system suited for real life settings where active foreground speech can be present. In the proposed system, each recording is represented by a fixed-length iVector that models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Siyuan Song , Brecht Desplanques , Celest De Moor , Kris Demuynck , Nilesh Madhu

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

Considering that acoustic scenes and sound events are closely related to each other, in some previous papers, a joint analysis of acoustic scenes and sound events utilizing multitask learning (MTL)-based neural networks was proposed. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Shunsuke Tsubaki , Keisuke Imoto , Nobutaka Ono

Acoustic Event Detection (AED), aiming at detecting categories of events based on audio signals, has found application in many intelligent systems. Recently deep neural network significantly advances this field and reduces detection errors…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Bowen Shi , Ming Sun , Chieh-Chi Kao , Viktor Rozgic , Spyros Matsoukas , Chao Wang

This paper proposes an effective modelling of sound event spectra with a hidden data-size-imbalance, for improved Acoustic Event Detection (AED). The proposed method models each event as an aggregated representation of a few latent factors,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-08 Chaitanya Narisetty , Tatsuya Komatsu , Reishi Kondo