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As sound event classification moves towards larger datasets, issues of label noise become inevitable. Web sites can supply large volumes of user-contributed audio and metadata, but inferring labels from this metadata introduces errors due…

Labeled data is a critical resource for training and evaluating machine learning models. However, many real-life datasets are only partially labeled. We propose a semi-supervised machine learning training strategy to improve event detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Florian Dubost , Erin Hong , Nandita Bhaskhar , Siyi Tang , Daniel Rubin , Christopher Lee-Messer

Jointly learning from a small labeled set and a larger unlabeled set is an active research topic under semi-supervised learning (SSL). In this paper, we propose a novel SSL method based on a two-stage framework for leveraging a large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Tanmay Khandelwal , Rohan Kumar Das , Andrew Koh , Eng Siong Chng

We propose an adaptive change point detection method (A-CPD) for machine guided weak label annotation of audio recording segments. The goal is to maximize the amount of information gained about the temporal activations of the target sounds.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-27 John Martinsson , Olof Mogren , Maria Sandsten , Tuomas Virtanen

This paper focuses on the weakly-supervised audio-visual video parsing task, which aims to recognize all events belonging to each modality and localize their temporal boundaries. This task is challenging because only overall labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Haoyue Cheng , Zhaoyang Liu , Hang Zhou , Chen Qian , Wayne Wu , Limin Wang

We propose a method to perform audio event detection under the common constraint that only limited training data are available. In training a deep learning system to perform audio event detection, two practical problems arise. Firstly, most…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Veronica Morfi , Dan Stowell

Sound event detection (SED) aims to detect when and recognize what sound events happen in an audio clip. Many supervised SED algorithms rely on strongly labelled data which contains the onset and offset annotations of sound events. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Qiuqiang Kong , Yong Xu , Iwona Sobieraj , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Research on sound event detection (SED) with weak labeling has mostly focused on presence/absence labeling, which provides no temporal information at all about the event occurrences. In this paper, we consider SED with sequential labeling,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Yun Wang , Florian Metze

Detecting anomalies in temporal data has gained significant attention across various real-world applications, aiming to identify unusual events and mitigate potential hazards. In practice, situations often involve a mix of segment-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yaxuan Wang , Hao Cheng , Jing Xiong , Qingsong Wen , Han Jia , Ruixuan Song , Liyuan Zhang , Zhaowei Zhu , Yang Liu

Weakly Supervised Sound Event Detection (WSSED), which relies on audio tags without precise onset and offset times, has become prevalent due to the scarcity of strongly labeled data that includes exact temporal boundaries for events. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Yuliang Zhang , Defeng , Huang , Roberto Togneri

Strong labels are a necessity for evaluation of sound event detection methods, but often scarcely available due to the high resources required by the annotation task. We present a method for estimating strong labels using crowdsourced weak…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Irene Martín-Morató , Manu Harju , Annamaria Mesaros

We propose a simple but efficient method termed Guided Learning for weakly-labeled semi-supervised sound event detection (SED). There are two sub-targets implied in weakly-labeled SED: audio tagging and boundary detection. Instead of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Liwei Lin , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian

Many time series classification tasks, where labels vary over time, are affected by label noise that also varies over time. Such noise can cause label quality to improve, worsen, or periodically change over time. We first propose and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Sujay Nagaraj , Walter Gerych , Sana Tonekaboni , Anna Goldenberg , Berk Ustun , Thomas Hartvigsen

This paper addresses performance degradation in anomalous sound detection (ASD) when neither sufficiently similar machine data nor operational state labels are available. We present an integrated pipeline that combines three complementary…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ibuki Kuroyanagi , Takuya Fujimura , Kazuya Takeda , Tomoki Toda

Label noise is ubiquitous in various machine learning scenarios such as self-labeling with model predictions and erroneous data annotation. Many existing approaches are based on heuristics such as sample losses, which might not be flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Zhihao Wang , Zongyu Lin , Peiqi Liu , Guidong ZHeng , Junjie Wen , Xianxin Chen , Yujun Chen , Zhilin Yang

Despite the success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks, the human-level performance relies on massive training data with high-quality annotations, which are expensive and time-consuming to collect. The fact is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Jialin Shi , Ji Wu

Improper or erroneous labelling can pose a hindrance to reliable generalization for supervised learning. This can have negative consequences, especially for critical fields such as healthcare. We propose an effective new approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Konstantinos Nikolaidis , Thomas Plagemann , Stein Kristiansen , Vera Goebel , Mohan Kankanhalli

Most sound event detection (SED) systems perform well on clean datasets but degrade significantly in noisy environments. Language-queried audio source separation (LASS) models show promise for robust SED by separating target events;…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yuanjian Chen , Yang Xiao , Han Yin , Yadong Guan , Xubo Liu

Label noise widely exists in large-scale datasets and significantly degenerates the performances of deep learning algorithms. Due to the non-identifiability of the instance-dependent noise transition matrix, most existing algorithms address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Hanwen Deng , Weijia Zhang , Min-Ling Zhang

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