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A sound event detection (SED) method typically takes as an input a sequence of audio frames and predicts the activities of sound events in each frame. In real-life recordings, the sound events exhibit some temporal structure: for instance,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Konstantinos Drossos , Shayan Gharib , Paul Magron , Tuomas Virtanen

Existing anomaly detection methods for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) generally suffer from insufficient extraction of spatio-temporal correlation features, reliance on either timedomain or frequencydomain information alone, and high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Miao Ye , Ziheng Wang , Qiuxiang Jiang , Xingsi Xue , Wenxi Liu , Yu Ning , Cheng Zhu

Target confusion, defined as occasional switching to non-target speakers, poses a key challenge for end-to-end speaker extraction (E2E-SE) systems. We argue that this problem is largely caused by the lack of generalizability and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhenghai You , Zhenyu Zhou , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

Data synthesis and augmentation are essential for Sound Event Detection (SED) due to the scarcity of temporally labeled data. While augmentation methods like SpecAugment and Mix-up can enhance model performance, they remain constrained by…

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

Recently, deep learning-based beamforming algorithms have shown promising performance in target speech extraction tasks. However, most systems do not fully utilize spatial information. In this paper, we propose a target speech extraction…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Aoqi Guo , Junnan Wu , Peng Gao , Wenbo Zhu , Qinwen Guo , Dazhi Gao , Yujun Wang

Target-speaker speech processing (TS) tasks, such as target-speaker automatic speech recognition (TS-ASR), target speech extraction (TSE), and personal voice activity detection (p-VAD), are important for extracting information about a…

Targeted syntactic evaluation of subject-verb number agreement in English (TSE) evaluates language models' syntactic knowledge using hand-crafted minimal pairs of sentences that differ only in the main verb's conjugation. The method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Benjamin Newman , Kai-Siang Ang , Julia Gong , John Hewitt

Deep learning technologies have significantly advanced the performance of target speaker extraction (TSE) tasks. To enhance the generalization and robustness of these algorithms when training data is insufficient, data augmentation is a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Junjie Li , Ke Zhang , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li , Man-Wai Mak , Kong Aik Lee

The choice of an optimal time-frequency resolution is usually a difficult but important step in tasks involving speech signal classification, e.g., speech anti-spoofing. The variations of the performance with different choices of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Wei Liu , Meng Sun , Xiongwei Zhang , Hugo Van hamme , Thomas Fang Zheng

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

Extracting the speech of a target speaker from mixed audios, based on a reference speech from the target speaker, is a challenging yet powerful technology in speech processing. Recent studies of speaker-independent speech separation, such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Zining Zhang , Bingsheng He , Zhenjie Zhang

The goal of acoustic (or sound) events detection (AED or SED) is to predict the temporal position of target events in given audio segments. This task plays a significant role in safety monitoring, acoustic early warning and other scenarios.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-26 Wenhao Ding , Liang He

Time-domain single-channel speech enhancement (SE) still remains challenging to extract the target speaker without any prior information on multi-talker conditions. It has been shown via auditory attention decoding that the brain activity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Jie Zhang , Qing-Tian Xu , Qiu-Shi Zhu , Zhen-Hua Ling

The primary goal of multi-modal TSE (MTSE) is to extract a target speaker from a speech mixture using complementary information from different modalities, such as audio enrolment and visual feeds corresponding to the target speaker. MTSE…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Srikanth Korse , Mohamed Elminshawi , Emanuel A. P. Habets , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli

Self-supervised speech pre-training empowers the model with the contextual structure inherent in the speech signal while self-supervised text pre-training empowers the model with linguistic information. Both of them are beneficial for…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Zhuoyuan Yao , Shuo Ren , Sanyuan Chen , Ziyang Ma , Pengcheng Guo , Lei Xie

Sound event detection (SED) aims at identifying audio events (audio tagging task) in recordings and then locating them temporally (localization task). This last task ends with the segmentation of the frame-level class predictions, that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Leo Cances , Patrice Guyot , Thomas Pellegrini

Speaker extraction aims to extract target speech signal from a multi-talker environment with interference speakers and surrounding noise, given the target speaker's reference information. Most speaker extraction systems achieve satisfactory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-12 Chengyun Deng , Shiqian Ma , Yi Zhang , Yongtao Sha , Hui Zhang , Hui Song , Xiangang Li

Sound event localisation and detection (SELD) is a problem in the field of automatic listening that aims at the temporal detection and localisation (direction of arrival estimation) of sound events within an audio clip, usually of long…

Detection and Classification Acoustic Scene and Events Challenge 2021 Task 4 uses a heterogeneous dataset that includes both recorded and synthetic soundscapes. Until recently only target sound events were considered when synthesizing the…

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

The Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events Challenge Task 4 aims to advance sound event detection (SED) systems in domestic environments by leveraging training data with different supervision uncertainty. Participants…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Samuele Cornell , Janek Ebbers , Constance Douwes , Irene Martín-Morató , Manu Harju , Annamaria Mesaros , Romain Serizel