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Sound event localization and detection 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 Watcharasupat , Ngoc Khanh Nguyen , Douglas L. Jones , Woon Seng Gan

Polyphonic sound event detection (polyphonic SED) is an interesting but challenging task due to the concurrence of multiple sound events. Recently, SED methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) and recurrent neural networks (RNN)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-24 Yaming Liu , Jian Tang , Yan Song , Lirong Dai

In this technical report, the systems we submitted for subtask 4 of the DCASE 2021 challenge, regarding sound event detection, are described in detail. These models are closely related to the baseline provided for this problem, as they are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-20 Wim Boes , Hugo Van hamme

This paper presents the objective, dataset, baseline, and metrics of Task 3 of the DCASE2025 Challenge on sound event localization and detection (SELD). In previous editions, the challenge used four-channel audio formats of first-order…

In this paper, we describe in detail our systems for DCASE 2020 Task 4. The systems are based on the 1st-place system of DCASE 2019 Task 4, which adopts weakly-supervised framework with an attention-based embedding-level pooling module and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yuxin Huang , Liwei Lin , Shuo Ma , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian , Min Liu , Kazushige Ouch

Sound event detection (SED) is typically posed as a supervised learning problem requiring training data with strong temporal labels of sound events. However, the production of datasets with strong labels normally requires unaffordable labor…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Dezhi Wang , Lilun Zhang , Changchun Bao , Kele Xu , Boqing Zhu , Qiuqiang Kong

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

Polyphonic sound event localization and detection (SELD), which jointly performs sound event detection (SED) and direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation, detects the type and occurrence time of sound events as well as their corresponding DoA…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Yin Cao , Turab Iqbal , Qiuqiang Kong , Fengyan An , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) is crucial in spatial audio processing, enabling systems to detect sound events and estimate their 3D directions. Existing SELD methods use single- or dual-branch architectures: single-branch…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hogeon Yu

This report presents the dataset and baseline of Task 3 of the DCASE2021 Challenge on Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). The dataset is based on emulation of real recordings of static or moving sound events under real conditions…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Archontis Politis , Sharath Adavanne , Daniel Krause , Antoine Deleforge , Prerak Srivastava , Tuomas Virtanen

In this paper, we propose a method called Hodge and Podge for sound event detection. We demonstrate Hodge and Podge on the dataset of Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2019 Challenge Task 4. This task aims…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Ziqiang Shi , Liu Liu , Huibin Lin , Rujie Liu

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…

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

Many methods of sound event detection (SED) based on machine learning regard a segmented time frame as one data sample to model training. However, the sound durations of sound events vary greatly depending on the sound event class, e.g.,…

In sound event detection (SED), overlapping sound events pose a significant challenge, as certain events can be easily masked by background noise or other events, resulting in poor detection performance. To address this issue, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Han Yin , Jisheng Bai , Yang Xiao , Hui Wang , Siqi Zheng , Yafeng Chen , Rohan Kumar Das , Chong Deng , Jianfeng Chen

In recent years, deep learning systems have shown a concerning trend toward increased complexity and higher energy consumption. As researchers in this domain and organizers of one of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Francesca Ronchini , Romain Serizel

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

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

In this paper, a special decision surface for the weakly-supervised sound event detection (SED) and a disentangled feature (DF) for the multi-label problem in polyphonic SED are proposed. We approach SED as a multiple instance learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Liwei Lin , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian

The performances of Sound Event Detection (SED) systems are greatly limited by the difficulty in generating large strongly labeled dataset. In this work, we used two main approaches to overcome the lack of strongly labeled data. First, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Hyeonuk Nam , Byeong-Yun Ko , Gyeong-Tae Lee , Seong-Hu Kim , Won-Ho Jung , Sang-Min Choi , Yong-Hwa Park