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Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) combines the Sound Event Detection (SED) with the corresponding Direction Of Arrival (DOA). Recently, adopted event oriented multi-track methods affect the generality in polyphonic environments…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xueping Zhang , Yaxiong Chen , Ruilin Yao , Yunfei Zi , Shengwu Xiong

In this paper, a combinative approach using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is proposed for audio clip Sound Event Detection (SED). The main idea begins with the use of NMF to approximate strong…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Chan Teck Kai , Chin Cheng Siong , Li Ye

Recent advances in generating synthetic captions based on audio and related metadata allow using the information contained in natural language as input for other audio tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel method to guide a sound event…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Manu Harju , Annamaria Mesaros

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

2D convolution is widely used in sound event detection (SED) to recognize two dimensional time-frequency patterns of sound events. However, 2D convolution enforces translation equivariance on sound events along both time and frequency axis…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Hyeonuk Nam , Seong-Hu Kim , Byeong-Yun Ko , Yong-Hwa Park

Sound event detection and sound event localization requires different features from audio input signals. While sound event detection mainly relies on time-frequency patterns to distinguish different event classes, sound event localization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 T. N. T. Nguyen , D. L. Jones , R. Ranjan , S. Jayabalan , W. S. Gan

Joint sound event localization and detection (SELD) is an emerging audio signal processing task adding spatial dimensions to acoustic scene analysis and sound event detection. A popular approach to modeling SELD jointly is using…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos

Misophonia is a disorder characterized by a decreased tolerance to specific everyday sounds (trigger sounds) that can evoke intense negative emotional responses such as anger, panic, or anxiety. These reactions can substantially impair…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Kurumi Sashida , Gouhei Tanaka

An important problem in machine auditory perception is to recognize and detect sound events. In this paper, we propose a sequential self-teaching approach to learning sounds. Our main proposition is that it is harder to learn sounds in…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Anurag Kumar , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu

Speech Activity Detection (SAD) systems often misclassify singing as speech, leading to degraded performance in applications such as dialogue enhancement and automatic speech recognition. We introduce Singing-Robust Speech Activity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Philipp Grundhuber , Mhd Modar Halimeh , Martin Strauß , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Artificial sound event detection (SED) has the aim to mimic the human ability to perceive and understand what is happening in the surroundings. Nowadays, Deep Learning offers valuable techniques for this goal such as Convolutional Neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Fabio Vesperini , Leonardo Gabrielli , Emanuele Principi , Stefano Squartini

For learning-based sound event localization and detection (SELD) methods, different acoustic environments in the training and test sets may result in large performance differences in the validation and evaluation stages. Different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Feiran Yang , Ziying Yu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley , Jun Yang

One hour before sunrise, one can experience the dawn chorus where birds from different species sing together. In this scenario, high levels of polyphony, as in the number of overlapping sound sources, are prone to happen resulting in a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Alberto García Arroba Parrilla , Dan Stowell

Data collection and annotation is a laborious, time-consuming prerequisite for supervised machine learning tasks. Online Active Learning (OAL) is a paradigm that addresses this issue by simultaneously minimizing the amount of annotation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-29 Mark Lindsey , Ankit Shah , Francis Kubala , Richard M. Stern

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

Current synthetic speech detection (SSD) methods perform well on certain datasets but still face issues of robustness and interpretability. A possible reason is that these methods do not analyze the deficiencies of synthetic speech. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Yuxiang Zhang , Zhuo Li , Jingze Lu , Wenchao Wang , Pengyuan Zhang

Audio Event Detection (AED) aims to recognize sounds within audio and video recordings. AED employs machine learning algorithms commonly trained and tested on annotated datasets. However, available datasets are limited in number of samples…

Sound Event Localization and Detection refers to the problem of identifying the presence of independent or temporally-overlapped sound sources, correctly identifying to which sound class it belongs, estimating their spatial directions while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Francesca Ronchini , Daniel Arteaga , Andrés Pérez-López

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…

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