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In a typical sound event detection (SED) system, the existence of a sound event is detected at a frame level, and consecutive frames with the same event detected are combined as one sound event. The median filter is applied as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Tao Song

The Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2019 challenge focuses on audio tagging, sound event detection and spatial localisation. DCASE 2019 consists of five tasks: 1) acoustic scene classification, 2) audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Qiuqiang Kong , Yin Cao , Turab Iqbal , Yong Xu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

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

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

Despite recent progress in large-scale sound event detection (SED) systems capable of handling hundreds of sound classes, existing multi-class classification frameworks remain fundamentally limited. They cannot process free-text sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Jiarui Hai , Helin Wang , Weizhe Guo , Mounya Elhilali

The Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2019 challenge focuses on audio tagging, sound event detection and spatial localisation. DCASE 2019 consists of five tasks: 1) acoustic scene classification, 2) audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Qiuqiang Kong , Yin Cao , Turab Iqbal , Yong Xu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

This report proposes a frequency dynamic convolution (FDY) with a large kernel attention (LKA)-convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN) with a pre-trained bidirectional encoder representation from audio transformers (BEATs)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Ji Won Kim , Sang Won Son , Yoonah Song , Hong Kook Kim , Il Hoon Song , Jeong Eun Lim

Polyphonic events are the main error source of audio event detection (AED) systems. In deep-learning context, the most common approach to deal with event overlaps is to treat the AED task as a multi-label classification problem. By doing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Huy Phan , Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Philipp Koch , Alfred Mertins

This technical report presents submission systems for Task 4 of the DCASE 2025 Challenge. This model incorporates additional audio features (spectral roll-off and chroma features) into the embedding feature extracted from the mel-spectral…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Jongyeon Park , Joonhee Lee , Do-Hyeon Lim , Hong Kook Kim , Hyeongcheol Geum , Jeong Eun Lim

The challenges of polyphonic sound event detection (PSED) stem from the detection of multiple overlapping events in a time series. Recent efforts exploit Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on Time-Frequency Representations (TFRs) of audio clips as…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Wangkai Jin , Junyu Liu , Jianfeng Ren , Xiangjun Peng

In this paper, we study the use of soft labels to train a system for sound event detection (SED). Soft labels can result from annotations which account for human uncertainty about categories, or emerge as a natural representation of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Irene Martín-Morató , Manu Harju , Paul Ahokas , Annamaria Mesaros

Joint sound event localization and detection (SELD) is an emerging audio signal processing task adding spatial dimensions to acoustic scene analysis and sound event detection. A popular approach to modeling SELD jointly is using…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos

Previous DCASE challenges contributed to an increase in the performance of acoustic scene classification systems. State-of-the-art classifiers demand significant processing capabilities and memory which is challenging for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-10 Nagashree K. S. Rao , Nils Peters

DNN-based methods have shown high performance in sound event localization and detection(SELD). While in real spatial sound scenes, reverberation and the imbalanced presence of various sound events increase the complexity of the SELD task.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Siwei Huang , Jianfeng Chen , Jisheng Bai , Yafei Jia , Dongzhe Zhang

This paper considers a semi-supervised learning framework for weakly labeled polyphonic sound event detection problems for the DCASE 2019 challenge's task4 by combining both the tri-training and adversarial learning. The goal of the task4…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Hyoungwoo Park , Sungrack Yun , Jungyun Eum , Janghoon Cho , Kyuwoong Hwang

2D convolution is widely used in sound event detection (SED) to recognize two dimensional time-frequency patterns of sound events. However, 2D convolution enforces translation equivariance on sound events along both time and frequency axis…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Hyeonuk Nam , Seong-Hu Kim , Byeong-Yun Ko , Yong-Hwa Park

This paper focuses on few-shot Sound Event Detection (SED), which aims to automatically recognize and classify sound events with limited samples. However, prevailing methods methods in few-shot SED predominantly rely on segment-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Liang Zou , Genwei Yan , Ruoyu Wang , Jun Du , Meng Lei , Tian Gao , Xin Fang

In this paper, we introduce a LargE-scale Annotator's labels for sound event Detection (LEAD) dataset, which is the dataset used to gain a better understanding of the variation in strong labels in sound event detection (SED). In SED, it is…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Naoki Koga , Yoshiaki Bando , Keisuke Imoto

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

There are two sub-tasks implied in the weakly-supervised SED: audio tagging and event boundary detection. Current methods which combine multi-task learning with SED requires annotations both for these two sub-tasks. Since there are only…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Yuxin Huang , Xiangdong Wang , Liwei Lin , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian