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This paper proposes an active learning system for sound event detection (SED). It aims at maximizing the accuracy of a learned SED model with limited annotation effort. The proposed system analyzes an initially unlabeled audio dataset, from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Shuyang Zhao , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

In this paper, we propose a convolutional recurrent neural network for joint sound event localization and detection (SELD) of multiple overlapping sound events in three-dimensional (3D) space. The proposed network takes a sequence of…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Sharath Adavanne , Archontis Politis , Joonas Nikunen , Tuomas Virtanen

In this paper, we describe in detail the system we submitted to DCASE2019 task 4: sound event detection (SED) in domestic environments. We employ a convolutional neural network (CNN) with an embedding-level attention pooling module to solve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Liwei Lin , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian

In this paper, we propose an effective sound event detection (SED) method based on the audio spectrogram transformer (AST) model, pretrained on the large-scale AudioSet for audio tagging (AT) task, termed AST-SED. Pretrained AST models have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Kang Li , Yan Song , Li-Rong Dai , Ian McLoughlin , Xin Fang , Lin Liu

Temporal detection problems appear in many fields including time-series estimation, activity recognition and sound event detection (SED). In this work, we propose a new approach to temporal event modeling by explicitly modeling event onsets…

Frequency dynamic convolution (FDY conv) has been a milestone in the sound event detection (SED) field, but it involves a substantial increase in model size due to multiple basis kernels. In this work, we propose partial frequency dynamic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Hyeonuk Nam , Yong-Hwa Park

Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) is a problem related to the field of machine listening whose objective is to recognize individual sound events, detect their temporal activity, and estimate their spatial location. Thanks to the…

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

Sound event detection systems typically consist of two stages: extracting hand-crafted features from the raw audio waveform, and learning a mapping between these features and the target sound events using a classifier. Recently, the focus…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Emre Çakır , Tuomas Virtanen

In this work, we conduct an in-depth analysis of two frequency-dependent methods for sound event detection (SED): FilterAugment and frequency dynamic convolution (FDY conv). The goal is to better understand their characteristics and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Hyeonuk Nam , Seong-Hu Kim , Deokki Min , Byeong-Yun Ko , Yong-Hwa Park

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…

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

We explore on various attention methods on frequency and channel dimensions for sound event detection (SED) in order to enhance performance with minimal increase in computational cost while leveraging domain knowledge to address the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Hyeonuk Nam , Seong-Hu Kim , Deokki Min , Yong-Hwa Park

Polyphonic Sound Event Detection (SED) in real-world recordings is a challenging task because of the dynamic polyphony level, intensity, and duration of sound events. Current polyphonic SED systems fail to model the temporal structure of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-02 Arjun Pankajakshan , Helen L. Bear , Emmanouil Benetos

We target the problem of developing new low-complexity networks for the sound event detection task. Our goal is to meticulously analyze the performance-complexity trade-off, aiming to be competitive with the large state-of-the-art models,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Tobias Morocutti , Florian Schmid , Jonathan Greif , Francesco Foscarin , Gerhard Widmer

This paper proposes to use low-level spatial features extracted from multichannel audio for sound event detection. We extend the convolutional recurrent neural network to handle more than one type of these multichannel features by learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Sharath Adavanne , Pasi Pertilä , Tuomas Virtanen

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

Sound event detection (SED) is the task of tagging the absence or presence of audio events and their corresponding interval within a given audio clip. While SED can be done using supervised machine learning, where training data is fully…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Heinrich Dinkel , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Most existing sound event detection~(SED) algorithms operate under a closed-set assumption, restricting their detection capabilities to predefined classes. While recent efforts have explored language-driven zero-shot SED by exploiting…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Pengfei Cai , Yan Song , Qing Gu , Nan Jiang , Haoyu Song , Ian McLoughlin

The goal of automatic sound event detection (SED) methods is to recognize what is happening in an audio signal and when it is happening. In practice, the goal is to recognize at what temporal instances different sounds are active within an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Annamaria Mesaros , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen , Mark D. Plumbley