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This paper presents our work of training acoustic event detection (AED) models using unlabeled dataset. Recent acoustic event detectors are based on large-scale neural networks, which are typically trained with huge amounts of labeled data.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-01 Bowen Shi , Ming Sun , Chieh-Chi Kao , Viktor Rozgic , Spyros Matsoukas , Chao Wang

Data synthesis and augmentation are essential for Sound Event Detection (SED) due to the scarcity of temporally labeled data. While augmentation methods like SpecAugment and Mix-up can enhance model performance, they remain constrained by…

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

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 present a new framework SoundDet, which is an end-to-end trainable and light-weight framework, for polyphonic moving sound event detection and localization. Prior methods typically approach this problem by preprocessing raw waveform into…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yuhang He , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

There is a common observation that audio event classification is easier to deal with than detection. So far, this observation has been accepted as a fact and we lack of a careful analysis. In this paper, we reason the rationale behind this…

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…

For learning-based sound event localization and detection (SELD) methods, different acoustic environments in the training and test sets may result in large performance differences in the validation and evaluation stages. Different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Feiran Yang , Ziying Yu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley , Jun Yang

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) systems estimate both the direction-of-arrival (DOA) and class of sound sources over time. In the DCASE 2022 SELD Challenge (Task 3), models are designed to operate in a 4-channel setting. While…

Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) combines the Sound Event Detection (SED) with the corresponding Direction Of Arrival (DOA). Recently, adopted event oriented multi-track methods affect the generality in polyphonic environments…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xueping Zhang , Yaxiong Chen , Ruilin Yao , Yunfei Zi , Shengwu Xiong

EventDetectR: An efficient Event Detection System (EDS) capable of detecting unexpected water quality conditions. This approach uses multiple algorithms to model the relationship between various multivariate water quality signals. Then the…

Computation · Statistics 2020-11-20 Sowmya Chandrasekaran , Margarita Rebolledo , Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

We propose a pre-training pipeline for audio spectrogram transformers for frame-level sound event detection tasks. On top of common pre-training steps, we add a meticulously designed training routine on AudioSet frame-level annotations.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Florian Schmid , Tobias Morocutti , Francesco Foscarin , Jan Schlüter , Paul Primus , Gerhard Widmer

Polyphonic sound event localization and detection is not only detecting what sound events are happening but localizing corresponding sound sources. This series of tasks was first introduced in DCASE 2019 Task 3. In 2020, the sound event…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Yin Cao , Turab Iqbal , Qiuqiang Kong , Yue Zhong , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

This paper introduces a model of environmental acoustic scenes which adopts a morphological approach by ab-stracting temporal structures of acoustic scenes. To demonstrate its potential, this model is employed to evaluate the performance of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-03 Mathieu Lagrange , Grégoire Lafay , Mathias Rossignol , Emmanouil Benetos , Axel Roebel

Automatic detection and classification of animal sounds has many applications in biodiversity monitoring and animal behaviour. In the past twenty years, the volume of digitised wildlife sound available has massively increased, and automatic…

A limited number of types of sound event occur in an acoustic scene and some sound events tend to co-occur in the scene; for example, the sound events "dishes" and "glass jingling" are likely to co-occur in the acoustic scene "cooking". In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Keisuke Imoto , Seisuke Kyochi

We present SELDVisualSynth, a tool for generating synthetic videos for audio-visual sound event localization and detection (SELD). Our approach incorporates real-world background images to improve realism in synthetic audio-visual SELD data…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Adrian S. Roman , Aiden Chang , Gerardo Meza , Iran R. Roman

Event extraction (EE) is the task of identifying interested event mentions from text. Conventional efforts mainly focus on the supervised setting. However, these supervised models cannot generalize to event types out of the pre-defined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Hongming Zhang , Wenlin Yao , Dong Yu

Event Detection, which aims to identify and classify mentions of event instances from unstructured articles, is an important task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Existing techniques for event detection only use homogeneous one-hot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Anran Hao , Siu Cheung Hui , Jian Su

Sound event detection is a challenging task, especially for scenes with multiple simultaneous events. While event classification methods tend to be fairly accurate, event localization presents additional challenges, especially when large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-12 Sandeep Kothinti , Keisuke Imoto , Debmalya Chakrabarty , Gregory Sell , Shinji Watanabe , Mounya Elhilali

This technical report outlines our approach to Task 3A of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2024, focusing on Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). SELD provides valuable insights by estimating…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Quoc Thinh Vo , David Han