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In this paper, we describe in detail the system we submitted to DCASE2019 task 4: sound event detection (SED) in domestic environments. We employ a convolutional neural network (CNN) with an embedding-level attention pooling module to solve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Liwei Lin , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian

In this technique report, we present a bunch of methods for the task 4 of Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events 2017 (DCASE2017) challenge. This task evaluates systems for the large-scale detection of sound events using…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Yong Xu , Qiuqiang Kong , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Existing systems for sound event localization and detection (SELD) typically operate by estimating a source location for all classes at every time instant. In this paper, we propose an alternative class-conditioned SELD model for situations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Olga Slizovskaia , Gordon Wichern , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Jonathan Le Roux

We propose a direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation method for Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). Direct estimation of DOA using a deep neural network (DNN), i.e. completely-datadriven approach, achieves high accuracy. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Masahiro Yasuda , Yuma Koizumi , Shoichiro Saito , Hisashi Uematsu , Keisuke Imoto

This technical report presents our submission to Task 3 of the DCASE 2025 Challenge: Stereo Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) in Regular Video Content. We address the audio-only task in this report and introduce several key…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Jun-Wei Yeow , Ee-Leng Tan , Santi Peksi , Woon-Seng Gan

This report presents our audio event detection system submitted for Task 2, "Detection of rare sound events", of DCASE 2017 challenge. The proposed system is based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and deep neural networks (DNNs)…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Huy Phan , Martin Krawczyk-Becker , Timo Gerkmann , Alfred Mertins

Sound event detection (SED) is a task to detect sound events in an audio recording. One challenge of the SED task is that many datasets such as the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) datasets are weakly…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Qiuqiang Kong , Yong Xu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) consists of two subtasks, which are sound event detection and direction-of-arrival estimation. While sound event detection mainly relies on time-frequency patterns to distinguish different sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Karn N. Watcharasupat , Ngoc Khanh Nguyen , Douglas L. Jones , Woon-Seng Gan

The Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2019 challenge focuses on audio tagging, sound event detection and spatial localisation. DCASE 2019 consists of five tasks: 1) acoustic scene classification, 2) audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Qiuqiang Kong , Yin Cao , Turab Iqbal , Yong Xu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

This technical report describes the systems submitted to the DCASE2022 challenge task 3: sound event localization and detection (SELD). The task aims to detect occurrences of sound events and specify their class, furthermore estimate their…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jin Sob Kim , Hyun Joon Park , Wooseok Shin , Sung Won Han

In this report, we propose three novel methods for developing a sound event detection (SED) model for the DCASE 2024 Challenge Task 4. First, we propose an auxiliary decoder attached to the final convolutional block to improve feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Sang Won Son , Jongyeon Park , Hong Kook Kim , Sulaiman Vesal , Jeong Eun Lim

Existing methods utilizing spatial information for sound source separation require prior knowledge of the direction of arrival (DOA) of the source or utilize estimated but imprecise localization results, which impairs the separation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Donghang Wu , Xihong Wu , Tianshu Qu

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

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

In this paper, we compare the performance of using binaural audio features in place of single-channel features for sound event detection. Three different binaural features are studied and evaluated on the publicly available TUT Sound Events…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Sharath Adavanne , Tuomas Virtanen

Sound event detection is an important facet of audio tagging that aims to identify sounds of interest and define both the sound category and time boundaries for each sound event in a continuous recording. With advances in deep neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Sangwook Park , David K. Han , Mounya Elhilali

Machine learning algorithms, when trained on audio recordings from a limited set of devices, may not generalize well to samples recorded using other devices with different frequency responses. In this work, a relatively straightforward…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Michał Kośmider

In this paper, we introduce the concept of Eventness for audio event detection, which can, in part, be thought of as an analogue to Objectness from computer vision. The key observation behind the eventness concept is that audio events…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Phuong Pham , Juncheng Li , Joseph Szurley , Samarjit Das

The Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2019 challenge focuses on audio tagging, sound event detection and spatial localisation. DCASE 2019 consists of five tasks: 1) acoustic scene classification, 2) audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Qiuqiang Kong , Yin Cao , Turab Iqbal , Yong Xu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Most sound event detection (SED) systems perform well on clean datasets but degrade significantly in noisy environments. Language-queried audio source separation (LASS) models show promise for robust SED by separating target events;…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yuanjian Chen , Yang Xiao , Han Yin , Yadong Guan , Xubo Liu