English
Related papers

Related papers: What Makes Sound Event Localization and Detection …

200 papers

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) has seen substantial advancements through learning-based methods. These systems, typically trained from scratch on specific datasets, have shown considerable generalization capabilities.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Fang Kang , Feiran Yang , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley , Jun Yang

This work presents HDA-SELD, a unified framework that combines hierarchical cross-modal distillation (HCMD) and multi-level data augmentation to address low-resource audio-visual (AV) sound event localization and detection (SELD). An…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Qing Wang , Ya Jiang , Hang Chen , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Jun Du , Jianqing Gao

This paper proposes an effective modelling of sound event spectra with a hidden data-size-imbalance, for improved Acoustic Event Detection (AED). The proposed method models each event as an aggregated representation of a few latent factors,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-08 Chaitanya Narisetty , Tatsuya Komatsu , Reishi Kondo

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

Recently, an event-based end-to-end model (SEDT) has been proposed for sound event detection (SED) and achieves competitive performance. However, compared with the frame-based model, it requires more training data with temporal annotations…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zhirong Ye , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian , Rui Tao , Long Yan , Kazushige Ouchi

Many methods of sound event detection (SED) based on machine learning regard a segmented time frame as one data sample to model training. However, the sound durations of sound events vary greatly depending on the sound event class, e.g.,…

Data collection and annotation is a laborious, time-consuming prerequisite for supervised machine learning tasks. Online Active Learning (OAL) is a paradigm that addresses this issue by simultaneously minimizing the amount of annotation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-29 Mark Lindsey , Ankit Shah , Francis Kubala , Richard M. Stern

We propose a direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation method for Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). Direct estimation of DOA using a deep neural network (DNN), i.e. completely-datadriven approach, achieves high accuracy. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Masahiro Yasuda , Yuma Koizumi , Shoichiro Saito , Hisashi Uematsu , Keisuke Imoto

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) is a task for the classification of sound events and the localization of direction of arrival (DoA) utilizing multichannel acoustic signals. Prior studies employ spectral and channel information…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Yusun Shul , Jung-Woo Choi

In this paper, a special decision surface for the weakly-supervised sound event detection (SED) and a disentangled feature (DF) for the multi-label problem in polyphonic SED are proposed. We approach SED as a multiple instance learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Liwei Lin , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian

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

In this paper, we describe in detail the system we submitted to DCASE2019 task 4: sound event detection (SED) in domestic environments. We employ a convolutional neural network (CNN) with an embedding-level attention pooling module to solve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Liwei Lin , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian

In this technical report, the systems we submitted for subtask 4 of the DCASE 2021 challenge, regarding sound event detection, are described in detail. These models are closely related to the baseline provided for this problem, as they are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-20 Wim Boes , Hugo Van hamme

A sound event detection (SED) method typically takes as an input a sequence of audio frames and predicts the activities of sound events in each frame. In real-life recordings, the sound events exhibit some temporal structure: for instance,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Konstantinos Drossos , Shayan Gharib , Paul Magron , Tuomas Virtanen

Deep learning-based Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) systems degrade significantly on real-world, long-tailed datasets. Standard regression losses bias learning toward frequent classes, causing rare events to be systematically…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Jun-Wei Yeow , Ee-Leng Tan , Santi Peksi , Woon-Seng Gan

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

This paper presents DCASE 2018 task 4. The task evaluates systems for the large-scale detection of sound events using weakly labeled data (without time boundaries). The target of the systems is to provide not only the event class but also…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Romain Serizel , Nicolas Turpault , Hamid Eghbal-Zadeh , Ankit Parag Shah

Sound event detection (SED) aims to detect when and recognize what sound events happen in an audio clip. Many supervised SED algorithms rely on strongly labelled data which contains the onset and offset annotations of sound events. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Qiuqiang Kong , Yong Xu , Iwona Sobieraj , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

We present the task description and discussion on the results of the DCASE 2021 Challenge Task 2. In 2020, we organized an unsupervised anomalous sound detection (ASD) task, identifying whether a given sound was normal or anomalous without…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Yohei Kawaguchi , Keisuke Imoto , Yuma Koizumi , Noboru Harada , Daisuke Niizumi , Kota Dohi , Ryo Tanabe , Harsh Purohit , Takashi Endo

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