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Pre-training methods have achieved significant performance improvements in sound event localization and detection (SELD) tasks, but existing Transformer-based models suffer from high computational complexity. In this work, we propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Wenmiao Gao , Yang Xiao

Most existing sound event detection~(SED) algorithms operate under a closed-set assumption, restricting their detection capabilities to predefined classes. While recent efforts have explored language-driven zero-shot SED by exploiting…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Pengfei Cai , Yan Song , Qing Gu , Nan Jiang , Haoyu Song , Ian McLoughlin

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

Polyphonic Sound Event Detection (SED) in real-world recordings is a challenging task because of the dynamic polyphony level, intensity, and duration of sound events. Current polyphonic SED systems fail to model the temporal structure of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-02 Arjun Pankajakshan , Helen L. Bear , Emmanouil Benetos

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

This work explores class-incremental learning (CIL) for sound event detection (SED), advancing adaptability towards real-world scenarios. CIL's success in domains like computer vision inspired our SED-tailored method, addressing the unique…

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

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

Sound event localization and detection consists of two subtasks which are sound event detection and direction-of-arrival estimation. While sound event detection mainly relies on time-frequency patterns to distinguish different sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Karn Watcharasupat , Ngoc Khanh Nguyen , Douglas L. Jones , Woon Seng Gan

In this paper, we describe in detail our system for DCASE 2022 Task4. The system combines two considerably different models: an end-to-end Sound Event Detection Transformer (SEDT) and a frame-wise model, Metric Learning and Focal Loss CNN…

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

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) consists of two subtasks, which are sound event detection and direction-of-arrival estimation. While sound event detection mainly relies on time-frequency patterns to distinguish different sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Karn N. Watcharasupat , Ngoc Khanh Nguyen , Douglas L. Jones , Woon-Seng Gan

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

Concurrent Speaker Detection (CSD), the task of identifying active speakers and their overlaps in an audio signal, is essential for various audio applications, including meeting transcription, speaker diarization, and speech separation.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Amit Eliav , Sharon Gannot

This paper presents a new learning strategy for the Sound Event Detection (SED) system to tackle the issues of i) knowledge migration from a pre-trained model to a new target model and ii) learning new sound events without forgetting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Eunjeong Koh , Fatemeh Saki , Yinyi Guo , Cheng-Yu Hung , Erik Visser

Sound event detection (SED) methods are tasked with labeling segments of audio recordings by the presence of active sound sources. SED is typically posed as a supervised machine learning problem, requiring strong annotations for the…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Brian McFee , Justin Salamon , Juan Pablo Bello

In supervised speech separation, permutation invariant training (PIT) is widely used to handle label ambiguity by selecting the best permutation to update the model. Despite its success, previous studies showed that PIT is plagued by…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Chenyang Gao , Yue Gu , Ivan Marsic

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) and sound event detection (SED) are fundamental tasks in environmental sound analysis, and many methods based on deep learning have been proposed. Considering that information on acoustic scenes and sound…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Keisuke Imoto , Yuka Komatsu , Shunsuke Tsubaki , Tatsuya Komatsu

DNN-based methods have shown high performance in sound event localization and detection(SELD). While in real spatial sound scenes, reverberation and the imbalanced presence of various sound events increase the complexity of the SELD task.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Siwei Huang , Jianfeng Chen , Jisheng Bai , Yafei Jia , Dongzhe Zhang

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) aims to determine the appearance of sound classes, together with their Direction of Arrival (DOA). However, current SELD systems can only predict the activities of specific classes, for example,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Jinzheng Zhao , Xinyuan Qian , Yong Xu , Haohe Liu , Yin Cao , Davide Berghi , Wenwu Wang