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Sound Event Detection and Localization (SELD) is a combined task of identifying sound events and their corresponding direction-of-arrival (DOA). While this task has numerous applications and has been extensively researched in recent years,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Daniel Aleksander Krause , Archontis Politis , Annamaria Mesaros

This paper presents a new learning strategy for the Sound Event Detection (SED) system to tackle the issues of i) knowledge migration from a pre-trained model to a new target model and ii) learning new sound events without forgetting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Eunjeong Koh , Fatemeh Saki , Yinyi Guo , Cheng-Yu Hung , Erik Visser

Sound event detection (SED) is typically posed as a supervised learning problem requiring training data with strong temporal labels of sound events. However, the production of datasets with strong labels normally requires unaffordable labor…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Dezhi Wang , Lilun Zhang , Changchun Bao , Kele Xu , Boqing Zhu , Qiuqiang Kong

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

Sound Event Detection (SED) plays a vital role in audio understanding, with applications in surveillance, smart cities, healthcare, and multimedia indexing. However, conventional SED systems operate under a closed-world assumption, limiting…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-22 P. H. Hai , L. T. Minh , L. H. Son

This paper proposes a neural network architecture and training scheme to learn the start and end time of sound events (strong labels) in an audio recording given just the list of sound events existing in the audio without time information…

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

Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) is crucial in spatial audio processing, enabling systems to detect sound events and estimate their 3D directions. Existing SELD methods use single- or dual-branch architectures: single-branch…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hogeon Yu

Sound Event Detection (SED) detects regions of sound events, while Speaker Diarization (SD) segments speech conversations attributed to individual speakers. In SED, all speaker segments are classified as a single speech event, while in SD,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Yidi Jiang , Ruijie Tao , Wen Huang , Qian Chen , Wen Wang

This work explores domain generalization (DG) for sound event detection (SED), advancing adaptability to real-world scenarios. Our approach employs a mean-teacher framework with domain generalization named DG-SED to integrate heterogeneous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Yang Xiao , Han Yin , Jisheng Bai , Rohan Kumar Das

Source separation (SS) aims to separate individual sources from an audio recording. Sound event detection (SED) aims to detect sound events from an audio recording. We propose a joint separation-classification (JSC) model trained only on…

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

Due to the growing demand for improving surveillance capabilities in smart cities, systems need to be developed to provide better monitoring capabilities to competent authorities, agencies responsible for strategic resource management, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Tito Spadini , Dimitri Leandro de Oliveira Silva , Ricardo Suyama

Sound event detection (SED) aims at identifying audio events (audio tagging task) in recordings and then locating them temporally (localization task). This last task ends with the segmentation of the frame-level class predictions, that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Leo Cances , Patrice Guyot , Thomas Pellegrini

Sound event detection (SED) is a hot topic in consumer and smart city applications. Existing approaches based on Deep Neural Networks are very effective, but highly demanding in terms of memory, power, and throughput when targeting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Gianmarco Cerutti , Renzo Andri , Lukas Cavigelli , Michele Magno , Elisabetta Farella , Luca Benini

This report proposes a polyphonic sound event detection (SED) method for the DCASE 2021 Challenge Task 4. The proposed SED model consists of two stages: a mean-teacher model for providing target labels regarding weakly labeled or unlabeled…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Nam Kyun Kim , Hong Kook Kim

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

In this paper, we study the use of soft labels to train a system for sound event detection (SED). Soft labels can result from annotations which account for human uncertainty about categories, or emerge as a natural representation of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Irene Martín-Morató , Manu Harju , Paul Ahokas , Annamaria Mesaros

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

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

This paper focuses on few-shot Sound Event Detection (SED), which aims to automatically recognize and classify sound events with limited samples. However, prevailing methods methods in few-shot SED predominantly rely on segment-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Liang Zou , Genwei Yan , Ruoyu Wang , Jun Du , Meng Lei , Tian Gao , Xin Fang

Sound Event Early Detection (SEED) is an essential task in recognizing the acoustic environments and soundscapes. However, most of the existing methods focus on the offline sound event detection, which suffers from the over-confidence issue…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xujiang Zhao , Xuchao Zhang , Wei Cheng , Wenchao Yu , Yuncong Chen , Haifeng Chen , Feng Chen