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In this paper, we present a gated convolutional recurrent neural network based approach to solve task 4, large-scale weakly labelled semi-supervised sound event detection in domestic environments, of the DCASE 2018 challenge. Gated linear…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Robert Harb , Franz Pernkopf

In this paper we present our system for the detection and classification of acoustic scenes and events (DCASE) 2020 Challenge Task 4: Sound event detection and separation in domestic environments. We introduce two new models: the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 Janek Ebbers , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Automated audio captioning (AAC) aims to describe the content of an audio clip using simple sentences. Existing AAC methods are developed based on an encoder-decoder architecture that success is attributed to the use of a pre-trained CNN10…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jianyuan Sun , Xubo Liu , Xinhao Mei , Mark D. Plumbley , Volkan Kilic , Wenwu Wang

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

This paper proposes a network architecture mainly designed for audio tagging, which can also be used for weakly supervised acoustic event detection (AED). The proposed network consists of a modified DenseNet as the feature extractor, and a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Chieh-Chi Kao , Bowen Shi , Ming Sun , Chao Wang

Audio captioning aims at using natural language to describe the content of an audio clip. Existing audio captioning systems are generally based on an encoder-decoder architecture, in which acoustic information is extracted by an audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Xubo Liu , Xinhao Mei , Qiushi Huang , Jianyuan Sun , Jinzheng Zhao , Haohe Liu , Mark D. Plumbley , Volkan Kılıç , Wenwu Wang

This report presents our audio event detection system submitted for Task 2, "Detection of rare sound events", of DCASE 2017 challenge. The proposed system is based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and deep neural networks (DNNs)…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Huy Phan , Martin Krawczyk-Becker , Timo Gerkmann , Alfred Mertins

Automated audio captioning (AAC) is an audio-to-text task to describe audio contents in natural language. Recently, the advancements in large language models (LLMs), with improvements in training approaches for audio encoders, have opened…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Jizhong Liu , Gang Li , Junbo Zhang , Heinrich Dinkel , Yongqing Wang , Zhiyong Yan , Yujun Wang , Bin Wang

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

One of the problems with automated audio captioning (AAC) is the indeterminacy in word selection corresponding to the audio event/scene. Since one acoustic event/scene can be described with several words, it results in a combinatorial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Yuma Koizumi , Ryo Masumura , Kyosuke Nishida , Masahiro Yasuda , Shoichiro Saito

This paper proposes a benchmark of submissions to Detection and Classification Acoustic Scene and Events 2021 Challenge (DCASE) Task 4 representing a sampling of the state-of-the-art in Sound Event Detection task. The submissions are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Francesca Ronchini , Romain Serizel

Audio captioning aims to automatically generate a natural language description of an audio clip. Most captioning models follow an encoder-decoder architecture, where the decoder predicts words based on the audio features extracted by the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Qiushi Huang , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Audio captioning aims to generate text descriptions of audio clips. In the real world, many objects produce similar sounds. How to accurately recognize ambiguous sounds is a major challenge for audio captioning. In this work, inspired by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Xubo Liu , Qiushi Huang , Xinhao Mei , Haohe Liu , Qiuqiang Kong , Jianyuan Sun , Shengchen Li , Tom Ko , Yu Zhang , Lilian H. Tang , Mark D. Plumbley , Volkan Kılıç , Wenwu Wang

Automated audio captioning (AAC) aims to generate informative descriptions for various sounds from nature and/or human activities. In recent years, AAC has quickly attracted research interest, with state-of-the-art systems now relying on a…

Automated Audio captioning (AAC) is a cross-modal translation task that aims to use natural language to describe the content of an audio clip. As shown in the submissions received for Task 6 of the DCASE 2021 Challenges, this problem has…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Xubo Liu , Qiushi Huang , Xinhao Mei , Tom Ko , H Lilian Tang , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

In this paper, we present a gated convolutional neural network and a temporal attention-based localization method for audio classification, which won the 1st place in the large-scale weakly supervised sound event detection task of Detection…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Yong Xu , Qiuqiang Kong , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Audio-text retrieval based on natural language descriptions is a challenging task. It involves learning cross-modality alignments between long sequences under inadequate data conditions. In this work, we investigate several audio features…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Siyu Lou , Xuenan Xu , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Automated audio captioning (AAC), a task that mimics human perception as well as innovatively links audio processing and natural language processing, has overseen much progress over the last few years. AAC requires recognizing contents such…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Xuenan Xu , Zeyu Xie , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

We describe in this report our audio scene recognition system submitted to the DCASE 2016 challenge. Firstly, given the label set of the scenes, a label tree is automatically constructed. This category taxonomy is then used in the feature…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Huy Phan , Lars Hertel , Marco Maass , Philipp Koch , Alfred Mertins

Discrete audio representations, termed audio tokens, are broadly categorized into semantic and acoustic tokens, typically generated through unsupervised tokenization of continuous audio representations. However, their applicability to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jingguang Tian , Haoqin Sun , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu