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Polyphonic sound event localization and detection (SELD) aims at detecting types of sound events with corresponding temporal activities and spatial locations. In this paper, a track-wise ensemble event independent network with a novel data…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Qiuqiang Kong , Feiran Yang , Mark D. Plumbley , Jun Yang

This work describes and discusses an algorithm submitted to the Sound Event Localization and Detection Task of DCASE2019 Challenge. The proposed methodology relies on parametric spatial audio analysis for source localization and detection,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Andres Perez-Lopez , Eduardo Fonseca , Xavier Serra

Spatial Semantic Segmentation of Sound Scenes (S5) aims to enhance technologies for sound event detection and separation from multi-channel input signals that mix multiple sound events with spatial information. This is a fundamental basis…

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) involves predicting active sound event classes over time while estimating their positions. The localization subtask in SELD is usually treated as a direction of arrival estimation problem,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Davide Berghi , Philip J. B. Jackson

This report describes our systems submitted to the DCASE2021 challenge task 3: sound event localization and detection (SELD) with directional interference. Our previous system based on activity-coupled Cartesian direction of arrival…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Kazuki Shimada , Naoya Takahashi , Yuichiro Koyama , Shusuke Takahashi , Emiru Tsunoo , Masafumi Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

In this paper we present our system for the detection and classification of acoustic scenes and events (DCASE) 2020 Challenge Task 4: Sound event detection and separation in domestic environments. We introduce two new models: the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 Janek Ebbers , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

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

Existing weakly supervised sound event detection (WSSED) work has not explored both types of co-occurrences simultaneously, i.e., some sound events often co-occur, and their occurrences are usually accompanied by specific background sounds,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Yifei Xin , Dongchao Yang , Fan Cui , Yujun Wang , Yuexian Zou

Spatial semantic segmentation of sound scenes (S5) involves the accurate identification of active sound classes and the precise separation of their sources from complex acoustic mixtures. Conventional systems rely on a two-stage pipeline -…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Tobias Morocutti , Jonathan Greif , Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

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

In this paper, we compare the performance of using binaural audio features in place of single-channel features for sound event detection. Three different binaural features are studied and evaluated on the publicly available TUT Sound Events…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Sharath Adavanne , Tuomas Virtanen

Overlapping sound events are ubiquitous in real-world environments, but existing end-to-end sound event detection (SED) methods still struggle to detect them effectively. A critical reason is that these methods represent overlapping events…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Yadong Guan , Jiqing Han , Hongwei Song , Wenjie Song , Guibin Zheng , Tieran Zheng , Yongjun He

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) combines the identification of sound events with the corresponding directions of arrival (DOA). Recently, event-oriented track output formats have been adopted to solve this problem; however,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Jin Sob Kim , Hyun Joon Park , Wooseok Shin , Sung Won Han

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models offer powerful representations for sound event detection (SED), yet their synergistic potential remains underexplored. This study systematically evaluates state-of-the-art SSL models to guide optimal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Hanfang Cui , Longfei Song , Li Li , Dongxing Xu , Yanhua Long

This paper proposes acoustic event detection (AED) with classifier chains, a new classifier based on the probabilistic chain rule. The proposed AED with classifier chains consists of a gated recurrent unit and performs iterative binary…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Tatsuya Komatsu , Shinji Watanabe , Koichi Miyazaki , Tomoki Hayashi

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

This report presents our systems submitted to the audio-only and audio-visual tracks of the DCASE2025 Task 3 Challenge: Stereo Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) in Regular Video Content. SELD is a complex task that combines…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Davide Berghi , Philip J. B. Jackson

Sound event detection (SED) entails two subtasks: recognizing what types of sound events are present in an audio stream (audio tagging), and pinpointing their onset and offset times (localization). In the popular multiple instance learning…

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

This report presents our audio event detection system submitted for Task 2, "Detection of rare sound events", of DCASE 2017 challenge. The proposed system is based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and deep neural networks (DNNs)…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Huy Phan , Martin Krawczyk-Becker , Timo Gerkmann , Alfred Mertins

Sound event detection (SED) methods that leverage a large pre-trained Transformer encoder network have shown promising performance in recent DCASE challenges. However, they still rely on an RNN-based context network to model temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Pengfei Cai , Yan Song , Kang Li , Haoyu Song , Ian McLoughlin