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Sound event localisation and detection (SELD) is a problem in the field of automatic listening that aims at the temporal detection and localisation (direction of arrival estimation) of sound events within an audio clip, usually of long…

Recent progress in auditory intelligence has yielded high-performing systems for sound event detection (SED), acoustic scene classification (ASC), automated audio captioning (AAC), and audio question answering (AQA). Yet these tasks remain…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Hyeonuk Nam

Modern recommendation systems involve massive catalogs of multimodal items, where scalable item identification must balance compactness, semantic fidelity, and downstream effectiveness. Semantic IDs (SIDs) address this need by representing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yongsen Pan , Yuxin Chen , Zheng Hu , Xu Yuan , Daoyuan Wang , Yuting Yin , Songhao Ni , Hongyang Wang , Jun Wang , Fuji Ren , Wenwu Ou

Audiovisual active speaker detection (ASD) addresses the task of determining the speech activity of a candidate speaker given acoustic and visual data. Typically, systems model the temporal correspondence of audiovisual cues, such as the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jason Clarke , Yoshihiko Gotoh , Stefan Goetze

Auditory attention decoding (AAD) identifies the attended speech stream in multi-speaker environments by decoding brain signals such as electroencephalography (EEG). This technology is essential for realizing smart hearing aids that address…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Masahiro Yoshino , Haruki Yokota , Junya Hara , Yuichi Tanaka , Hiroshi Higashi

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) is a combined task of identifying the sound event and its direction. Deep neural networks (DNNs) are utilized to associate them with the sound signals observed by a microphone array. Although…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Kento Nagatomo , Masahiro Yasuda , Kohei Yatabe , Shoichiro Saito , Yasuhiro Oikawa

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

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

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

Speech activity detection (SAD), which often rests on the fact that the noise is "more" stationary than speech, is particularly challenging in non-stationary environments, because the time variance of the acoustic scene makes it difficult…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Jens Heitkaemper , Joerg Schmalenstroeer , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

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…

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

We aim to perform sound event localization and detection (SELD) using wearable equipment for a moving human, such as a pedestrian. Conventional SELD tasks have dealt only with microphone arrays located in static positions. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Masahiro Yasuda , Shoichiro Saito , Akira Nakayama , Noboru Harada

Audio Description (AD) plays a pivotal role as an application system aimed at guaranteeing accessibility in multimedia content, which provides additional narrations at suitable intervals to describe visual elements, catering specifically to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Seon-Ho Lee , Jue Wang , David Fan , Zhikang Zhang , Linda Liu , Xiang Hao , Vimal Bhat , Xinyu Li

Sound event localization frameworks based on deep neural networks have shown increased robustness with respect to reverberation and noise in comparison to classical parametric approaches. In particular, recurrent architectures that…

Joint sound event localization and detection (SELD) is an integral part of developing context awareness into communication interfaces of mobile robots, smartphones, and home assistants. For example, an automatic audio focus for video…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Pasi Pertilä , Emre Cakir , Aapo Hakala , Eemi Fagerlund , Tuomas Virtanen , Archontis Politis , Antti Eronen

Sound event localization and detection with source distance estimation (3D SELD) involves not only identifying the sound category and its direction-of-arrival (DOA) but also predicting the source's distance, aiming to provide full…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Hengyi Hong , Qing Wang , Jun Du , Ruoyu Wei , Mingqi Cai , Xin Fang

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) is a challenging task, as a single scene may involve multiple events that contain complex sound patterns. For example, a cooking scene may contain several sound sources including silverware clinking,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Weimin Wang , Weiran Wang , Ming Sun , Chao Wang

For computational acoustics, schemes need to have low-dispersion and low-dissipation properties in order to capture the amplitude and phase of the wave correctly. To improve the spectral properties of the scheme, the authors have previously…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Y. H. Li , Y. X. Ren , Y. T. Su

Acoustic environments affect acoustic characteristics of sound to be recognized by physically interacting with sound wave propagation. Thus, training acoustic models for audio and speech tasks requires regularization on various acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Hyeonuk Nam , Seong-Hu Kim , Yong-Hwa Park