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Immersive communication has made significant advancements, especially with the release of the codec for Immersive Voice and Audio Services. Aiming at its further realization, the DCASE 2025 Challenge has recently introduced a task for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Binh Thien Nguyen , Masahiro Yasuda , Daiki Takeuchi , Daisuke Niizumi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada

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

Auditory scene analysis (ASA) aims to retrieve information from the acoustic environment, by carrying out three main tasks: sound source location, separation, and classification. These tasks are traditionally executed with a linear data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Caleb Rascon , Luis Gato-Diaz , Eduardo García-Alarcón

Audio event localization and detection (SELD) have been commonly tackled using multitask models. Such a model usually consists of a multi-label event classification branch with sigmoid cross-entropy loss for event activity detection and a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Huy Phan , Lam Pham , Philipp Koch , Ngoc Q. K. Duong , Ian McLoughlin , Alfred Mertins

How to visually localize multiple sound sources in unconstrained videos is a formidable problem, especially when lack of the pairwise sound-object annotations. To solve this problem, we develop a two-stage audiovisual learning framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Rui Qian , Di Hu , Heinrich Dinkel , Mengyue Wu , Ning Xu , Weiyao Lin

Estimation of the location of sound sources is usually done using microphone arrays. Such settings provide an environment where we know the difference between the received signals among different microphones in the terms of phase or…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Helena Peic Tukuljac , Herve Lissek , Pierre Vandergheynst

Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) is a problem related to the field of machine listening whose objective is to recognize individual sound events, detect their temporal activity, and estimate their spatial location. Thanks to the…

This report presents the dataset and baseline of Task 3 of the DCASE2021 Challenge on Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). The dataset is based on emulation of real recordings of static or moving sound events under real conditions…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Archontis Politis , Sharath Adavanne , Daniel Krause , Antoine Deleforge , Prerak Srivastava , Tuomas Virtanen

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

Environmental sound detection is a challenging application of machine learning because of the noisy nature of the signal, and the small amount of (labeled) data that is typically available. This work thus presents a comparison of several…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Juncheng Li , Wei Dai , Florian Metze , Shuhui Qu , Samarjit Das

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

Pre-training methods have achieved significant performance improvements in sound event localization and detection (SELD) tasks, but existing Transformer-based models suffer from high computational complexity. In this work, we propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Wenmiao Gao , Yang Xiao

Sound source proximity and distance estimation are of great interest in many practical applications, since they provide significant information for acoustic scene analysis. As both tasks share complementary qualities, ensuring efficient…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Daniel Aleksander Krause , Archontis Politis , Annamaria Mesaros

In Psychology, actions are paramount for humans to identify sound events. In Machine Learning (ML), action recognition achieves high accuracy; however, it has not been asked whether identifying actions can benefit Sound Event Classification…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Benjamin Elizalde , Radu Revutchi , Samarjit Das , Bhiksha Raj , Ian Lane , Laurie M. Heller

The types of sound events that occur in a situation are limited, and some sound events are likely to co-occur; for instance, ``dishes'' and ``glass jingling.'' In this paper, we propose a technique of sound event detection utilizing graph…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Keisuke Imoto , Seisuke Kyochi

This paper presents the details of Task 1: Acoustic Scene Classification in the DCASE 2020 Challenge. The task consists of two subtasks: classification of data from multiple devices, requiring good generalization properties, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Toni Heittola , Annamaria Mesaros , Tuomas Virtanen

This study presents an audio-visual information fusion approach to sound event localization and detection (SELD) in low-resource scenarios. We aim at utilizing audio and video modality information through cross-modal learning and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Ya Jiang , Qing Wang , Jun Du , Maocheng Hu , Pengfei Hu , Zeyan Liu , Shi Cheng , Zhaoxu Nian , Yuxuan Dong , Mingqi Cai , Xin Fang , Chin-Hui Lee

The performance of sound event detection methods can significantly degrade when they are used in unseen conditions (e.g. recording devices, ambient noise). Domain adaptation is a promising way to tackle this problem. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Shayan Gharib , Konstantinos Drossos , Eemi Fagerlund , Tuomas Virtanen

This report proposes a polyphonic sound event detection (SED) method for the DCASE 2020 Challenge Task 4. The proposed SED method is based on semi-supervised learning to deal with the different combination of training datasets such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Nam Kyun Kim , Hong Kook Kim

We present the task description of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2023 Challenge Task 2: ``First-shot unsupervised anomalous sound detection (ASD) for machine condition monitoring''. The main goal is…