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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

Ambient sound scenes typically comprise multiple short events occurring on top of a somewhat stationary background. We consider the task of separating these events from the background, which we call foreground-background ambient sound scene…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Michel Olvera , Emmanuel Vincent , Romain Serizel , Gilles Gasso

This report presents the dataset and the evaluation setup of the Sound Event Localization & Detection (SELD) task for the DCASE 2020 Challenge. The SELD task refers to the problem of trying to simultaneously classify a known set of sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Archontis Politis , Sharath Adavanne , Tuomas Virtanen

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

A central problem in building effective sound event detection systems is the lack of high-quality, strongly annotated sound event datasets. For this reason, Task 4 of the DCASE 2024 challenge proposes learning from two heterogeneous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Florian Schmid , Paul Primus , Tobias Morocutti , Jonathan Greif , Gerhard Widmer

The aim of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events Challenge Task 4 is to evaluate systems for the detection of sound events in domestic environments using an heterogeneous dataset. The systems need to be able to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Francesca Ronchini , Samuele Cornell , Romain Serizel , Nicolas Turpault , Eduardo Fonseca , Daniel P. W. Ellis

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

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

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

Polyphonic sound event detection and direction-of-arrival estimation require different input features from audio signals. While sound event detection mainly relies on time-frequency patterns, direction-of-arrival estimation relies on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Douglas L. Jones , Woon-Seng Gan

In conventional sound event detection (SED) models, two types of events, namely, those that are present and those that do not occur in an acoustic scene, are regarded as the same type of events. The conventional SED methods cannot…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Noriyuki Tonami , Keisuke Imoto , Yuki Okamoto , Takahiro Fukumori , Yoichi Yamashita

This paper introduces a model of environmental acoustic scenes which adopts a morphological approach by ab-stracting temporal structures of acoustic scenes. To demonstrate its potential, this model is employed to evaluate the performance of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-03 Mathieu Lagrange , Grégoire Lafay , Mathias Rossignol , Emmanouil Benetos , Axel Roebel

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

We propose a pre-training pipeline for audio spectrogram transformers for frame-level sound event detection tasks. On top of common pre-training steps, we add a meticulously designed training routine on AudioSet frame-level annotations.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Florian Schmid , Tobias Morocutti , Francesco Foscarin , Jan Schlüter , Paul Primus , Gerhard Widmer

Sound event detection is the task of recognizing sounds and determining their extent (onset/offset times) within an audio clip. Existing systems commonly predict sound presence confidence in short time frames. Then, thresholding produces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Janek Ebbers , Francois G. Germain , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

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

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

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) and Sound Event Detection (SED) are two separate tasks in the field of computational sound scene analysis. In this work, we present a new dataset with both sound scene and sound event labels and use this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Helen L. Bear , Ines Nolasco , Emmanouil Benetos

While multitask and transfer learning has shown to improve the performance of neural networks in limited data settings, they require pretraining of the model on large datasets beforehand. In this paper, we focus on improving the performance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Soham Deshmukh , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

This paper presents Task 7 at the DCASE 2024 Challenge: sound scene synthesis. Recent advances in sound synthesis and generative models have enabled the creation of realistic and diverse audio content. We introduce a standardized evaluation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Mathieu Lagrange , Junwon Lee , Modan Tailleur , Laurie M. Heller , Keunwoo Choi , Brian McFee , Keisuke Imoto , Yuki Okamoto