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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

Sound Event Detection (SED) is challenging in noisy environments where overlapping sounds obscure target events. Language-queried audio source separation (LASS) aims to isolate the target sound events from a noisy clip. However, this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Han Yin , Yang Xiao , Jisheng Bai , Rohan Kumar Das

This paper presents the sound event localization and detection (SELD) task setup for the DCASE 2019 challenge. The goal of the SELD task is to detect the temporal activities of a known set of sound event classes, and further localize them…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Sharath Adavanne , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

Sound Event Detection and Localization (SELD) constitutes a complex task that depends on extensive multichannel audio recordings with annotated sound events and their respective locations. In this paper, we introduce a self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Orlem Lima dos Santos , Karen Rosero , Roberto de Alencar Lotufo

Sound event detection (SED) and acoustic scene classification (ASC) are important research topics in environmental sound analysis. Many research groups have addressed SED and ASC using neural-network-based methods, such as the convolutional…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Noriyuki Tonami , Keisuke Imoto , Ryosuke Yamanishi , Yoichi Yamashita

In traditional sound event localization and detection (SELD) tasks, the focus is typically on sound event detection (SED) and direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, but they fall short of providing full spatial information about the sound…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yuxuan Dong , Qing Wang , Hengyi Hong , Ya Jiang , Shi Cheng

Sound event detection (SED) and Acoustic scene classification (ASC) are two widely researched audio tasks that constitute an important part of research on acoustic scene analysis. Considering shared information between sound events and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Daniel Aleksander Krause , Annamaria Mesaros

Sound event detection and sound event localization requires different features from audio input signals. While sound event detection mainly relies on time-frequency patterns to distinguish different event classes, sound event localization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 T. N. T. Nguyen , D. L. Jones , R. Ranjan , S. Jayabalan , W. S. Gan

Sound event detection (SED) methods typically rely on either strongly labelled data or weakly labelled data. As an alternative, sequentially labelled data (SLD) was proposed. In SLD, the events and the order of events in audio clips are…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Yuanbo Hou , Qiuqiang Kong , Shengchen Li , 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

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) is an emerging research topic that aims to unify the tasks of sound event detection and direction-of-arrival estimation. As a result, SELD inherits the challenges of both tasks, such as noise,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Karn N. Watcharasupat , Zhen Jian Lee , Ngoc Khanh Nguyen , Douglas L. Jones , Woon Seng Gan

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

Sound event detection is the task of recognizing sounds and determining their extent (onset/offset times) within an audio clip. Existing systems commonly predict sound presence confidence in short time frames. Then, thresholding produces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Janek Ebbers , Francois G. Germain , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

An important problem in machine auditory perception is to recognize and detect sound events. In this paper, we propose a sequential self-teaching approach to learning sounds. Our main proposition is that it is harder to learn sounds in…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Anurag Kumar , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu

Sound Event Early Detection (SEED) is an essential task in recognizing the acoustic environments and soundscapes. However, most of the existing methods focus on the offline sound event detection, which suffers from the over-confidence issue…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xujiang Zhao , Xuchao Zhang , Wei Cheng , Wenchao Yu , Yuncong Chen , Haifeng Chen , Feng Chen

In Psychology, actions are paramount for humans to identify sound events. In Machine Learning (ML), action recognition achieves high accuracy; however, it has not been asked whether identifying actions can benefit Sound Event Classification…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Benjamin Elizalde , Radu Revutchi , Samarjit Das , Bhiksha Raj , Ian Lane , Laurie M. Heller

As part of the 2016 public evaluation challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2016), the second task focused on evaluating sound event detection systems using synthetic mixtures of office sounds. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-16 Grégoire Lafay , Emmanouil Benetos , Mathieu Lagrange

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

This work defines a new framework for performance evaluation of polyphonic sound event detection (SED) systems, which overcomes the limitations of the conventional collar-based event decisions, event F-scores and event error rates. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Cagdas Bilen , Giacomo Ferroni , Francesco Tuveri , Juan Azcarreta , Sacha Krstulovic

State-of-the-art sound event detection (SED) methods usually employ a series of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to extract useful features from the input audio signal, and then recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to model longer temporal…