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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

Annotating time boundaries of sound events is labor-intensive, limiting the scalability of strongly supervised learning in audio detection. To reduce annotation costs, weakly-supervised learning with only clip-level labels has been widely…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Keisuke Imoto

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 presents the Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification with Device Information Task of the DCASE 2025 Challenge, along with its baseline system. Continuing the focus on low-complexity models, data efficiency, and device…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Florian Schmid , Paul Primus , Toni Heittola , Annamaria Mesaros , Irene Martín-Morató , Gerhard Widmer

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 technical report describes the CP-JKU team's submission for Task 4 Sound Event Detection with Heterogeneous Training Datasets and Potentially Missing Labels of the DCASE 24 Challenge. We fine-tune three large Audio Spectrogram…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Florian Schmid , Paul Primus , Tobias Morocutti , Jonathan Greif , Gerhard Widmer

Anomalous Sound Detection (ASD) is often formulated as a machine attribute classification task, a strategy necessitated by the common scenario where only normal data is available for training. However, the exhaustive collection of machine…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xin Fang , Guirui Zhong , Qing Wang , Fan Chu , Lei Wang , Mengui Qian , Mingqi Cai , Jiangzhao Wu , Jianqing Gao , Jun Du

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

This paper introduces a novel dataset for polyphonic sound event detection in urban sound monitoring use-cases. Based on isolated sounds taken from the FSD50k dataset, 20,000 polyphonic soundscapes are synthesized with sounds being randomly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Jakob Abeßer

Sound event detection (SED) and acoustic scene classification (ASC) are major tasks in environmental sound analysis. Considering that sound events and scenes are closely related to each other, some works have addressed joint analyses of…

Audio-based equipment condition monitoring suffers from a lack of standardized methodologies for algorithm selection, hindering reproducible research. This paper addresses this gap by introducing a comprehensive framework for the systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Srijesh Pillai , Yodhin Agarwal , Zaheeruddin Ahmed

Continuously learning new classes without catastrophic forgetting is a challenging problem for on-device environmental sound classification given the restrictions on computation resources (e.g., model size, running memory). To address this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yang Xiao , Xubo Liu , James King , Arshdeep Singh , Eng Siong Chng , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

State-of-the-art anomalous sound detection (ASD) systems are often trained by using an auxiliary classification task to learn an embedding space. Doing so enables the system to learn embeddings that are robust to noise and are ignoring…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Kevin Wilkinghoff

Various attention mechanisms are being widely applied to acoustic scene classification. However, we empirically found that the attention mechanism can excessively discard potentially valuable information, despite improving performance. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Hye-jin Shim , Jee-weon Jung , Ju-ho Kim , Ha-Jin Yu

We propose a new task for sound event detection (SED): sound event triage (SET). The goal of SET is to detect an arbitrary number of high-priority event classes while allowing misdetections of low-priority event classes where the priority…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Noriyuki Tonami , Keisuke Imoto

This article describes the Data-Efficient Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification Task in the DCASE 2024 Challenge and the corresponding baseline system. The task setup is a continuation of previous editions (2022 and 2023), which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Florian Schmid , Paul Primus , Toni Heittola , Annamaria Mesaros , Irene Martín-Morató , Khaled Koutini , Gerhard Widmer

This paper proposes a network architecture mainly designed for audio tagging, which can also be used for weakly supervised acoustic event detection (AED). The proposed network consists of a modified DenseNet as the feature extractor, and a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Chieh-Chi Kao , Bowen Shi , Ming Sun , Chao Wang

Sound event detection (SED) and acoustic scene classification (ASC) are important research topics in environmental sound analysis. Many research groups have addressed SED and ASC using neural-network-based methods, such as the convolutional…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Noriyuki Tonami , Keisuke Imoto , Ryosuke Yamanishi , Yoichi Yamashita

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) is an emerging research topic that aims to unify the tasks of sound event detection and direction-of-arrival estimation. As a result, SELD inherits the challenges of both tasks, such as noise,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Karn N. Watcharasupat , Zhen Jian Lee , Ngoc Khanh Nguyen , Douglas L. Jones , Woon Seng Gan