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This paper presents the objective, dataset, baseline, and metrics of Task 3 of the DCASE2025 Challenge on sound event localization and detection (SELD). In previous editions, the challenge used four-channel audio formats of first-order…

This technical report describes the systems submitted to the DCASE2022 challenge task 3: sound event localization and detection (SELD). The task aims to detect occurrences of sound events and specify their class, furthermore estimate their…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jin Sob Kim , Hyun Joon Park , Wooseok Shin , Sung Won Han

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

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

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

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

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

This study presents an audio-visual information fusion approach to sound event localization and detection (SELD) in low-resource scenarios. We aim at utilizing audio and video modality information through cross-modal learning and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Ya Jiang , Qing Wang , Jun Du , Maocheng Hu , Pengfei Hu , Zeyan Liu , Shi Cheng , Zhaoxu Nian , Yuxuan Dong , Mingqi Cai , Xin Fang , Chin-Hui Lee

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

Polyphonic sound event detection and localization (SELD) task is challenging because it is difficult to jointly optimize sound event detection (SED) and direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in the same network. We propose a general network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Ngoc Khanh Nguyen , Huy Phan , Lam Pham , Kenneth Ooi , Douglas L. Jones , Woon-Seng Gan

This paper describes sound event localization and detection (SELD) for spatial audio recordings captured by firstorder ambisonics (FOA) microphones. In this task, one may train a deep neural network (DNN) using FOA data annotated with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yoto Fujita , Yoshiaki Bando , Keisuke Imoto , Masaki Onishi , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) involves identifying the direction-of-arrival (DOA) and the event class. The SELD methods with a class-wise output format make the model predict activities of all sound event classes and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Kazuki Shimada , Yuichiro Koyama , Shusuke Takahashi , Naoya Takahashi , Emiru Tsunoo , Yuki Mitsufuji

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 localization and detection (SELD) is a task for the classification of sound events and the identification of direction of arrival (DoA) utilizing multichannel acoustic signals. For effective classification and localization, a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Yusun Shul , Dayun Choi , Jung-Woo Choi

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

We propose a new task for sound event detection (SED): sound event triage (SET). The goal of SET is to detect an arbitrary number of high-priority event classes while allowing misdetections of low-priority event classes where the priority…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Noriyuki Tonami , Keisuke Imoto

Wearable audio devices with active noise control (ANC) enhance listening comfort but often at the expense of situational awareness. However, this auditory isolation may mask crucial environmental cues, posing significant safety risks. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Jun-Wei Yeow , Ee-Leng Tan , Santi Peksi , Zhen-Ting Ong , 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…

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

This paper investigates the feasibility of class-incremental learning (CIL) for Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) tasks. The method features an incremental learner that can learn new sound classes independently while preserving…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-21 Ruchi Pandey , Manjunath Mulimani , Archontis Politis , Annamaria Mesaros