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This article proposes an encoder-decoder network model for Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC), the task of identifying the scene of an audio recording from its acoustic signature. We make use of multiple low-level spectrogram features at…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Lam Pham , Huy Phan , Truc Nguyen , Ramaswamy Palaniappan , Alfred Mertins , Ian McLoughlin

In this paper, we present an acoustic scene classification framework based on a large-margin factorized convolutional neural network (CNN). We adopt the factorized CNN to learn the patterns in the time-frequency domain by factorizing the 2D…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Janghoon Cho , Sungrack Yun , Hyoungwoo Park , Jungyun Eum , Kyuwoong Hwang

In this technical report, we present a joint effort of four groups, namely GT, USTC, Tencent, and UKE, to tackle Task 1 - Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) in the DCASE 2020 Challenge. Task 1 comprises two different sub-tasks: (i) Task 1a…

The goal of the acoustic scene classification (ASC) task is to classify recordings into one of the predefined acoustic scene classes. However, in real-world scenarios, ASC systems often encounter challenges such as recording device…

Convolutional neural networks are widely adopted in Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) tasks, but they generally carry a heavy computational burden. In this work, we propose a lightweight yet high-performing baseline network inspired by…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Jixiang Li , Chuming Liang , Bo Zhang , Zhao Wang , Fei Xiang , Xiangxiang Chu

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) is a challenging task, as a single scene may involve multiple events that contain complex sound patterns. For example, a cooking scene may contain several sound sources including silverware clinking,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Weimin Wang , Weiran Wang , Ming Sun , Chao Wang

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) is one of the most popular problems in the field of machine listening. The objective of this problem is to classify an audio clip into one of the predefined scenes using only the audio data. This problem…

Acoustic scene classification and related tasks have been dominated by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Top-performing CNNs use mainly audio spectograms as input and borrow their architectural design primarily from computer vision. A…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-09 Khaled Koutini , Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Gerhard Widmer

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) has been approached in the last years using deep learning techniques such as convolutional neural networks or recurrent neural networks. Many state-of-the-art solutions are based on image classification…

In this technical report, we present the SNTL-NTU team's Task 1 submission for the Low-Complexity Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2025 challenge. This submission departs from the typical application of knowledge distillation from a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Ee-Leng Tan , Jun Wei Yeow , Santi Peksi , Haowen Li , Ziyi Yang , Woon-Seng Gan

Recent studies focus on developing efficient systems for acoustic scene classification (ASC) using convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which typically consist of consecutive kernels. This paper highlights the benefits of using separate…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yiqiang Cai , Peihong Zhang , Shengchen Li

Spectrograms have been widely used in Convolutional Neural Networks based schemes for acoustic scene classification, such as the STFT spectrogram and the MFCC spectrogram, etc. They have different time-frequency characteristics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Weiping Zheng , Zhenyao Mo , Xiaotao Xing , Gansen Zhao

In Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) two major approaches have been followed . While one utilizes engineered features such as mel-frequency-cepstral-coefficients (MFCCs), the other uses learned features that are the outcome of an…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Bernhard Lehner , Matthias Dorfer , Gerhard Widmer

This thesis focuses on dealing with the task of acoustic scene classification (ASC), and then applied the techniques developed for ASC to a real-life application of detecting respiratory disease. To deal with ASC challenges, this thesis…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Lam Pham

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) identifies an environment based on an audio signal. This paper explores ASC in low-resource conditions and proposes a novel model, DS-FlexiNet, which combines depthwise separable convolutions from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Zhi Chen , Yun-Fei Shao , Yong Ma , Mingsheng Wei , Le Zhang , Wei-Qiang Zhang

Motivated by the fact that characteristics of different sound classes are highly diverse in different temporal scales and hierarchical levels, a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture is proposed for the environmental…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Boqing Zhu , Kele Xu , Dezhi Wang , Lilun Zhang , Bo Li , Yuxing Peng

This paper proposes a Sub-band Convolutional Neural Network for spoken term classification. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven to be very effective in acoustic applications such as spoken term classification, keyword spotting,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Chieh-Chi Kao , Ming Sun , Yixin Gao , Shiv Vitaladevuni , Chao Wang

We propose an efficient end-to-end convolutional neural network architecture, AclNet, for audio classification. When trained with our data augmentation and regularization, we achieved state-of-the-art performance on the ESC-50 corpus with…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Jonathan J Huang , Juan Jose Alvarado Leanos

The current methodology in tackling Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) task can be described in two steps, preprocessing of the audio waveform into log-mel spectrogram and then using it as the input representation for Convolutional Neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Xing Yong Kek , Cheng Siong Chin , Ye Li

In this paper, the Brno University of Technology (BUT) team submissions for Task 1 (Acoustic Scene Classification, ASC) of the DCASE-2018 challenge are described. Also, the analysis of different methods on the leaderboard set is provided.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-11 Hossein Zeinali , Lukas Burget , Jan Cernocky