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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

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

Audio event localization and detection (SELD) have been commonly tackled using multitask models. Such a model usually consists of a multi-label event classification branch with sigmoid cross-entropy loss for event activity detection and a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Huy Phan , Lam Pham , Philipp Koch , Ngoc Q. K. Duong , Ian McLoughlin , Alfred Mertins

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

Joint sound event localization and detection (SELD) is an integral part of developing context awareness into communication interfaces of mobile robots, smartphones, and home assistants. For example, an automatic audio focus for video…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Pasi Pertilä , Emre Cakir , Aapo Hakala , Eemi Fagerlund , Tuomas Virtanen , Archontis Politis , Antti Eronen

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

This technical report presents our submission to Task 3 of the DCASE 2025 Challenge: Stereo Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) in Regular Video Content. We address the audio-only task in this report and introduce several key…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Jun-Wei Yeow , Ee-Leng Tan , Santi Peksi , Woon-Seng Gan

Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) is a problem related to the field of machine listening whose objective is to recognize individual sound events, detect their temporal activity, and estimate their spatial location. Thanks to the…

Existing systems for sound event localization and detection (SELD) typically operate by estimating a source location for all classes at every time instant. In this paper, we propose an alternative class-conditioned SELD model for situations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Olga Slizovskaia , Gordon Wichern , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Jonathan Le Roux

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) is a joint task of sound event detection and direction-of-arrival estimation. In DCASE 2022 Task 3, types of data transform from computationally generated spatial recordings to recordings of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-12 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Qiuqiang Kong , Feiran Yang , Mark D. Plumbley , Jun Yang

Sound event detection (SED) entails identifying the type of sound and estimating its temporal boundaries from acoustic signals. These events are uniquely characterized by their spatio-temporal features, which are determined by the way they…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Tanmay Khandelwal , Rohan Kumar Das

In this paper, we describe our method for DCASE2019 task3: Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). We use four CRNN SELDnet-like single output models which run in a consecutive manner to recover all possible information of occurring…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Sławomir Kapka , Mateusz Lewandowski

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) is a combined task of identifying the sound event and its direction. Deep neural networks (DNNs) are utilized to associate them with the sound signals observed by a microphone array. Although…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Kento Nagatomo , Masahiro Yasuda , Kohei Yatabe , Shoichiro Saito , Yasuhiro Oikawa

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

In this study, we address the multimodal task of stereo sound event localization and detection with source distance estimation (3D SELD) in regular video content. 3D SELD is a complex task that combines temporal event classification with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Davide Berghi , Philip J. B. Jackson

Sound event localization and detection is a novel area of research that emerged from the combined interest of analyzing the acoustic scene in terms of the spatial and temporal activity of sounds of interest. This paper presents an overview…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Archontis Politis , Annamaria Mesaros , Sharath Adavanne , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

We aim to perform sound event localization and detection (SELD) using wearable equipment for a moving human, such as a pedestrian. Conventional SELD tasks have dealt only with microphone arrays located in static positions. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Masahiro Yasuda , Shoichiro Saito , Akira Nakayama , Noboru Harada

In this paper, we propose a convolutional recurrent neural network for joint sound event localization and detection (SELD) of multiple overlapping sound events in three-dimensional (3D) space. The proposed network takes a sequence of…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Sharath Adavanne , Archontis Politis , Joonas Nikunen , Tuomas Virtanen

The ranking of sound event detection (SED) systems may be biased by assumptions inherent to evaluation criteria and to the choice of an operating point. This paper compares conventional event-based and segment-based criteria against the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Giacomo Ferroni , Nicolas Turpault , Juan Azcarreta , Francesco Tuveri , Romain Serizel , Çagdaş Bilen , Sacha Krstulović

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