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Acoustic event detection is essential for content analysis and description of multimedia recordings. The majority of current literature on the topic learns the detectors through fully-supervised techniques employing strongly labeled data.…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Anurag Kumar , Bhiksha Raj

Label noise is ubiquitous in various machine learning scenarios such as self-labeling with model predictions and erroneous data annotation. Many existing approaches are based on heuristics such as sample losses, which might not be flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Zhihao Wang , Zongyu Lin , Peiqi Liu , Guidong ZHeng , Junjie Wen , Xianxin Chen , Yujun Chen , Zhilin Yang

Labeling a large set of data is expensive. Active learning aims to tackle this problem by asking to annotate only the most informative data from the unlabeled set. We propose a novel active learning approach that utilizes self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 John Seon Keun Yi , Minseok Seo , Jongchan Park , Dong-Geol Choi

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) involves predicting active sound event classes over time while estimating their positions. The localization subtask in SELD is usually treated as a direction of arrival estimation problem,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Davide Berghi , Philip J. B. Jackson

Detection of common events and scenes from audio is useful for extracting and understanding human contexts in daily life. Prior studies have shown that leveraging knowledge from a relevant domain is beneficial for a target acoustic event…

Unsupervised anomalous sound detection (ASD) aims to identify anomalous sounds by learning the features of normal operational sounds and sensing their deviations. Recent approaches have focused on the self-supervised task utilizing the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Soonhyeon Choi , Jung-Woo Choi

Acoustic event detection and scene classification are major research tasks in environmental sound analysis, and many methods based on neural networks have been proposed. Conventional methods have addressed these tasks separately; however,…

Target sound extraction (TSE) aims to extract the sound part of a target sound event class from a mixture audio with multiple sound events. The previous works mainly focus on the problems of weakly-labelled data, jointly learning and new…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Helin Wang , Dongchao Yang , Chao Weng , Jianwei Yu , Yuexian Zou

This technical report outlines our approach to Task 3A of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2024, focusing on Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). SELD provides valuable insights by estimating…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Quoc Thinh Vo , David Han

Spatial semantic segmentation of sound scenes (S5) involves the accurate identification of active sound classes and the precise separation of their sources from complex acoustic mixtures. Conventional systems rely on a two-stage pipeline -…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Tobias Morocutti , Jonathan Greif , Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

Labeled data is a critical resource for training and evaluating machine learning models. However, many real-life datasets are only partially labeled. We propose a semi-supervised machine learning training strategy to improve event detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Florian Dubost , Erin Hong , Nandita Bhaskhar , Siyi Tang , Daniel Rubin , Christopher Lee-Messer

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

Active learning is able to significantly reduce the annotation cost for data-driven techniques. However, previous active learning approaches for natural language processing mainly depend on the entropy-based uncertainty criterion, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Guirong Bai , Shizhu He , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao , Zaiqing Nie

Recent acoustic event classification research has focused on training suitable filters to represent acoustic events. However, due to limited availability of target event databases and linearity of conventional filters, there is still room…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Seongkyu Mun , Minkyu Shin , Suwon Shon , Wooil Kim , David K. Han , Hanseok Ko

Anomaly detection has many important applications, such as monitoring industrial equipment. Despite recent advances in anomaly detection with deep-learning methods, it is unclear how existing solutions would perform under…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Bingqing Chen , Luca Bondi , Samarjit Das

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

The ranking of sound event detection (SED) systems may be biased by assumptions inherent to evaluation criteria and to the choice of an operating point. This paper compares conventional event-based and segment-based criteria against the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Giacomo Ferroni , Nicolas Turpault , Juan Azcarreta , Francesco Tuveri , Romain Serizel , Çagdaş Bilen , Sacha Krstulović

DNN-based methods have shown high performance in sound event localization and detection(SELD). While in real spatial sound scenes, reverberation and the imbalanced presence of various sound events increase the complexity of the SELD task.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Siwei Huang , Jianfeng Chen , Jisheng Bai , Yafei Jia , Dongzhe Zhang

The design of new methods and models when only weakly-labeled data are available is of paramount importance in order to reduce the costs of manual annotation and the considerable human effort associated with it. In this work, we address…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Thomas Pellegrini , Léo Cances

In the last couple of years, weakly labeled learning has turned out to be an exciting approach for audio event detection. In this work, we introduce webly labeled learning for sound events which aims to remove human supervision altogether…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Anurag Kumar , Ankit Shah , Bhiksha Raj , Alex Hauptmann