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Sound event detection (SED) is the task of tagging the absence or presence of audio events and their corresponding interval within a given audio clip. While SED can be done using supervised machine learning, where training data is fully…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Heinrich Dinkel , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

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 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

In sound event detection (SED), overlapping sound events pose a significant challenge, as certain events can be easily masked by background noise or other events, resulting in poor detection performance. To address this issue, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Han Yin , Jisheng Bai , Yang Xiao , Hui Wang , Siqi Zheng , Yafeng Chen , Rohan Kumar Das , Chong Deng , Jianfeng Chen

This paper proposes a benchmark of submissions to Detection and Classification Acoustic Scene and Events 2021 Challenge (DCASE) Task 4 representing a sampling of the state-of-the-art in Sound Event Detection task. The submissions are…

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

This report presents the dataset and the evaluation setup of the Sound Event Localization & Detection (SELD) task for the DCASE 2020 Challenge. The SELD task refers to the problem of trying to simultaneously classify a known set of sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Archontis Politis , Sharath Adavanne , Tuomas Virtanen

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

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

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

Performing an adequate evaluation of sound event detection (SED) systems is far from trivial and is still subject to ongoing research. The recently proposed polyphonic sound detection (PSD)-receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and PSD…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Janek Ebbers , Romain Serizel , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

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

Localizing sounds and detecting events in different room environments is a difficult task, mainly due to the wide range of reflections and reverberations. When training neural network models with sounds recorded in only a few room…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Yusun Shul , Byeong-Yun Ko , Jung-Woo Choi

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 detection (SED) methods that leverage a large pre-trained Transformer encoder network have shown promising performance in recent DCASE challenges. However, they still rely on an RNN-based context network to model temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Pengfei Cai , Yan Song , Kang Li , Haoyu Song , Ian McLoughlin

Sound event detection (SED) aims to detect when and recognize what sound events happen in an audio clip. Many supervised SED algorithms rely on strongly labelled data which contains the onset and offset annotations of sound events. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Qiuqiang Kong , Yong Xu , Iwona Sobieraj , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Polyphonic sound event detection and direction-of-arrival estimation require different input features from audio signals. While sound event detection mainly relies on time-frequency patterns, direction-of-arrival estimation relies on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Douglas L. Jones , Woon-Seng Gan

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 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

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 detection is a core module for acoustic environmental analysis. Semi-supervised learning technique allows to largely scale up the dataset without increasing the annotation budget, and recently attracts lots of research…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Xiaofei Li