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Sound Event Detection (SED) plays a vital role in audio understanding, with applications in surveillance, smart cities, healthcare, and multimedia indexing. However, conventional SED systems operate under a closed-world assumption, limiting…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-22 P. H. Hai , L. T. Minh , L. H. Son

Despite recent progress in large-scale sound event detection (SED) systems capable of handling hundreds of sound classes, existing multi-class classification frameworks remain fundamentally limited. They cannot process free-text sound…

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

Event detection (ED) aims at detecting event trigger words in sentences and classifying them into specific event types. In real-world applications, ED typically does not have sufficient labelled data, thus can be formulated as a few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Shirong Shen , Tongtong Wu , Guilin Qi , Yuan-Fang Li , Gholamreza Haffari , Sheng Bi

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has reached a level of accuracy in recent years, that even outperforms humans in transcribing speech to text. Nevertheless, all current ASR approaches show a certain weakness against ambient noise. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Christopher Simic , Tobias Bocklet

For automatic speech translation (AST), end-to-end approaches are outperformed by cascaded models that transcribe with automatic speech recognition (ASR), then translate with machine translation (MT). A major cause of the performance gap is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Juan Pino , Liezl Puzon , Jiatao Gu , Xutai Ma , Arya D. McCarthy , Deepak Gopinath

This paper presents a methodology for early detection of audio events from audio streams. Early detection is the ability to infer an ongoing event during its initial stage. The proposed system consists of a novel inference step coupled with…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Huy Phan , Philipp Koch , Ian McLoughlin , Alfred Mertins

Although deep learning-based end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has shown remarkable performance in recent years, it suffers severe performance regression on test samples drawn from different data distributions. Test-time…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Guan-Ting Lin , Shang-Wen Li , Hung-yi Lee

Fake audio attack becomes a major threat to the speaker verification system. Although current detection approaches have achieved promising results on dataset-specific scenarios, they encounter difficulties on unseen spoofing data.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Haoxin Ma , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Ye Bai , Zhengkun Tian , Chenglong Wang

The successful deployment of deep learning-based acoustic echo and noise reduction (AENR) methods in consumer devices has spurred interest in developing low-complexity solutions, while emphasizing the need for robust performance in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Naveen Kumar Desiraju , Wolfgang Mack , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Salient object detection (SOD) aims at finding the most salient objects in images and outputs pixel-level binary masks. Transformer-based methods achieve promising performance due to their global semantic understanding, crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Wen Liang , Peipei Ran , Mengchao Bai , Xiao Liu , P. Bilha Githinji , Wei Zhao , Peiwu Qin

Sound event detection is the task of recognizing sounds and determining their extent (onset/offset times) within an audio clip. Existing systems commonly predict sound presence confidence in short time frames. Then, thresholding produces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Janek Ebbers , Francois G. Germain , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Sound event detection (SED) is a task to detect sound events in an audio recording. One challenge of the SED task is that many datasets such as the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) datasets are weakly…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Qiuqiang Kong , Yong Xu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

For self-supervised speech processing, it is crucial to use pretrained models as speech representation extractors. In recent works, increasing the size of the model has been utilized in acoustic model training in order to achieve better…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Po-Han Chi , Pei-Hung Chung , Tsung-Han Wu , Chun-Cheng Hsieh , Yen-Hao Chen , Shang-Wen Li , Hung-yi Lee

Many applications involve detecting and localizing specific sound events within long, untrimmed documents, including keyword spotting, medical observation, and bioacoustic monitoring for conservation. Deep learning techniques often set the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Piper Wolters , Logan Sizemore , Chris Daw , Brian Hutchinson , Lauren Phillips

In this paper, we propose a novel four-stage data augmentation approach to ResNet-Conformer based acoustic modeling for sound event localization and detection (SELD). First, we explore two spatial augmentation techniques, namely audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Qing Wang , Jun Du , Hua-Xin Wu , Jia Pan , Feng Ma , Chin-Hui Lee

Sound event detection (SED) is the task of identifying sound events along with their onset and offset times. A recent, convolutional neural networks based SED method, proposed the usage of depthwise separable (DWS) and time-dilated…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Konstantinos Drossos , Stylianos I. Mimilakis , Tuomas Virtanen

Sound event detection (SED) often suffers from the data deficiency problem. The recent baseline system in the DCASE2023 challenge task 4 leverages the large pretrained self-supervised learning (SelfSL) models to mitigate such restriction,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-01 Nian Shao , Xian Li , Xiaofei Li

We propose a new deep network for audio event recognition, called AENet. In contrast to speech, sounds coming from audio events may be produced by a wide variety of sources. Furthermore, distinguishing them often requires analyzing an…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Naoya Takahashi , Michael Gygli , Luc Van Gool

Transfer learning is a crucial concept within deep learning that allows artificial neural networks to benefit from a large pre-training data basis when confronted with a task of limited data. Despite its ubiquitous use and clear benefits,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Manuel Milling , Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Alexander Gebhard , Simon Rampp , Björn W. Schuller

This work considers training neural networks for speaker recognition with a much smaller dataset size compared to contemporary work. We artificially restrict the amount of data by proposing three subsets of the popular VoxCeleb2 dataset.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Nik Vaessen , David A. van Leeuwen