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This report describes our systems submitted to the DCASE2021 challenge task 3: sound event localization and detection (SELD) with directional interference. Our previous system based on activity-coupled Cartesian direction of arrival…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Kazuki Shimada , Naoya Takahashi , Yuichiro Koyama , Shusuke Takahashi , Emiru Tsunoo , Masafumi Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

Joint sound event localization and detection (SELD) is an integral part of developing context awareness into communication interfaces of mobile robots, smartphones, and home assistants. For example, an automatic audio focus for video…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Pasi Pertilä , Emre Cakir , Aapo Hakala , Eemi Fagerlund , Tuomas Virtanen , Archontis Politis , Antti Eronen

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

Environment shifts and conflicts present significant challenges for learning-based sound event localization and detection (SELD) methods. SELD systems, when trained in particular acoustic settings, often show restricted generalization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Qiuqiang Kong , Feiran Yang , Mark D. Plumbley , Jun Yang

While direction of arrival (DOA) of sound events is generally estimated from multichannel audio data recorded in a microphone array, sound events usually derive from visually perceptible source objects, e.g., sounds of footsteps come from…

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 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 (SELD) systems using audio recordings from a microphone array rely on spatial cues for determining the location of sound events. As a consequence, the localization performance of such systems is to a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Axel Berg , Johanna Engman , Jens Gulin , Karl Åström , Magnus Oskarsson

We aim to perform sound event localization and detection (SELD) using wearable equipment for a moving human, such as a pedestrian. Conventional SELD tasks have dealt only with microphone arrays located in static positions. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Masahiro Yasuda , Shoichiro Saito , Akira Nakayama , Noboru Harada

Audio event localization and detection (SELD) have been commonly tackled using multitask models. Such a model usually consists of a multi-label event classification branch with sigmoid cross-entropy loss for event activity detection and a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Huy Phan , Lam Pham , Philipp Koch , Ngoc Q. K. Duong , Ian McLoughlin , Alfred Mertins

Polyphonic sound event localization and detection (SELD), which jointly performs sound event detection (SED) and direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation, detects the type and occurrence time of sound events as well as their corresponding DoA…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Yin Cao , Turab Iqbal , Qiuqiang Kong , Fengyan An , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

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

In this paper, we propose a novel formula-driven supervised learning (FDSL) framework for pre-training an environmental sound analysis model by leveraging acoustic signals parametrically synthesized through formula-driven methods.…

In conventional sound event detection (SED) models, two types of events, namely, those that are present and those that do not occur in an acoustic scene, are regarded as the same type of events. The conventional SED methods cannot…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Noriyuki Tonami , Keisuke Imoto , Yuki Okamoto , Takahiro Fukumori , Yoichi Yamashita

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

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) combines two subtasks: sound event detection (SED) and direction of arrival (DOA) estimation. SELD is usually tackled as an audio-only problem, but visual information has been recently included.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Davide Berghi , Peipei Wu , Jinzheng Zhao , Wenwu Wang , Philip J. B. Jackson

This technical report details our work towards building an enhanced audio-visual sound event localization and detection (SELD) network. We build on top of the audio-only SELDnet23 model and adapt it to be audio-visual by merging both audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Adrian S. Roman , Baladithya Balamurugan , Rithik Pothuganti

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

Our goal is to develop a sound event localization and detection (SELD) system that works robustly in unknown environments. A SELD system trained on known environment data is degraded in an unknown environment due to environmental effects…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Masahiro Yasuda , Yasunori Ohishi , Shoichiro Saito

Most sound event detection (SED) systems perform well on clean datasets but degrade significantly in noisy environments. Language-queried audio source separation (LASS) models show promise for robust SED by separating target events;…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yuanjian Chen , Yang Xiao , Han Yin , Yadong Guan , Xubo Liu