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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

In this paper, we describe our method for DCASE2019 task3: Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). We use four CRNN SELDnet-like single output models which run in a consecutive manner to recover all possible information of occurring…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Sławomir Kapka , Mateusz Lewandowski

This report describes our submissions to Task2 and Task3 of the DCASE 2016 challenge. The systems aim at dealing with the detection of overlapping audio events in continuous streams, where the detectors are based on random decision forests.…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Huy Phan , Lars Hertel , Marco Maass , Philipp Koch , Alfred Mertins

The ranking of sound event detection (SED) systems may be biased by assumptions inherent to evaluation criteria and to the choice of an operating point. This paper compares conventional event-based and segment-based criteria against the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Giacomo Ferroni , Nicolas Turpault , Juan Azcarreta , Francesco Tuveri , Romain Serizel , Çagdaş Bilen , Sacha Krstulović

The ICASSP 2021 Acoustic Echo Cancellation Challenge is intended to stimulate research in the area of acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), which is an important part of speech enhancement and still a top issue in audio communication and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Kusha Sridhar , Ross Cutler , Ando Saabas , Tanel Parnamaa , Markus Loide , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun , Robert Aichner , Sriram Srinivasan

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

Most of the existing isolated sound event datasets comprise a small number of sound event classes, usually 10 to 15, restricted to a small domain, such as domestic and urban sound events. In this work, we introduce GISE-51, a dataset…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Sarthak Yadav , Mary Ellen Foster

We present a work on low-complexity acoustic scene classification (ASC) with multiple devices, namely the subtask A of Task 1 of the DCASE2021 challenge. This subtask focuses on classifying audio samples of multiple devices with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Yanxiong Li , Wenchang Cao , Wei Xie , Qisheng Huang , Wenfeng Pang , Qianhua He

Annotating time boundaries of sound events is labor-intensive, limiting the scalability of strongly supervised learning in audio detection. To reduce annotation costs, weakly-supervised learning with only clip-level labels has been widely…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Keisuke Imoto

Access to informative databases is a crucial part of notable research developments. In the field of domestic audio classification, there have been significant advances in recent years. Although several audio databases exist, these can be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-14 Abigail Copiaco , Christian Ritz , Stefano Fasciani , Nidhal Abdulaziz

This work explores domain generalization (DG) for sound event detection (SED), advancing adaptability to real-world scenarios. Our approach employs a mean-teacher framework with domain generalization named DG-SED to integrate heterogeneous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Yang Xiao , Han Yin , Jisheng Bai , Rohan Kumar Das

The ability to localize and track acoustic events is a fundamental prerequisite for equipping machines with the ability to be aware of and engage with humans in their surrounding environment. However, in realistic scenarios, audio signals…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Christine Evers , Heinrich Loellmann , Heinrich Mellmann , Alexander Schmidt , Hendrik Barfuss , Patrick Naylor , Walter Kellermann

Acoustic scene classification is an intricate problem for a machine. As an emerging field of research, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) achieve convincing results. In this paper, we explore the use of multi-scale Dense connected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Dawei Feng , Kele Xu , Haibo Mi , Feifan Liao , Yan Zhou

In this paper, we propose a method called Hodge and Podge for sound event detection. We demonstrate Hodge and Podge on the dataset of Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2019 Challenge Task 4. This task aims…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Ziqiang Shi , Liu Liu , Huibin Lin , Rujie Liu

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

Spatial semantic segmentation of sound scenes (S5) involves the accurate identification of active sound classes and the precise separation of their sources from complex acoustic mixtures. Conventional systems rely on a two-stage pipeline -…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Tobias Morocutti , Jonathan Greif , Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

Many applications involve detecting and localizing specific sound events within long, untrimmed documents, including keyword spotting, medical observation, and bioacoustic monitoring for conservation. Deep learning techniques often set the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Piper Wolters , Logan Sizemore , Chris Daw , Brian Hutchinson , Lauren Phillips

Deep learning-based sound event localization and classification is an emerging research area within wireless acoustic sensor networks. However, current methods for sound event localization and classification typically rely on a single…

In this paper, we propose an effective sound event detection (SED) method based on the audio spectrogram transformer (AST) model, pretrained on the large-scale AudioSet for audio tagging (AT) task, termed AST-SED. Pretrained AST models have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Kang Li , Yan Song , Li-Rong Dai , Ian McLoughlin , Xin Fang , Lin Liu

The ConferencingSpeech 2021 challenge is proposed to stimulate research on far-field multi-channel speech enhancement for video conferencing. The challenge consists of two separate tasks: 1) Task 1 is multi-channel speech enhancement with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Wei Rao , Yihui Fu , Yanxin Hu , Xin Xu , Yvkai Jv , Jiangyu Han , Zhongjie Jiang , Lei Xie , Yannan Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Zheng-Hua Tan , Hui Bu , Tao Yu , Shidong Shang