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The majority of sound scene analysis work focuses on one of two clearly defined tasks: acoustic scene classification or sound event detection. Whilst this separation of tasks is useful for problem definition, they inherently ignore some…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Helen L. Bear , Toni Heittola , Annamaria Mesaros , Emmanouil Benetos , Tuomas Virtanen

This paper presents an alternate representation framework to commonly used time-frequency representation for acoustic scene classification (ASC). A raw audio signal is represented using a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN) using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Arshdeep Singh

In this paper, we propose a sub-utterance unit selection framework to remove acoustic segments in audio recordings that carry little information for acoustic scene classification (ASC). Our approach is built upon a universal set of acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Hu Hu , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Yannan Wang , Xue Bai , Jun Du , Chin-Hui Lee

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) is a fundamental problem in computational audition, which seeks to classify environments based on the distinctive acoustic features. In the ASC task of the APSIPA ASC 2025 Grand Challenge, the organizers…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Bochao Sun , Dong Wang , ZhanLong Yang , Jun Yang , Han Yin

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) and Sound Event Detection (SED) are two separate tasks in the field of computational sound scene analysis. In this work, we present a new dataset with both sound scene and sound event labels and use this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Helen L. Bear , Ines Nolasco , Emmanouil Benetos

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) models on edge devices typically operate under fixed class assumptions, lacking the transferability needed for real-world applications that require adaptation to new or refined acoustic categories. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Kuang Yuan , Yang Gao , Xilin Li , Xinhao Mei , Syavosh Zadissa , Tarun Pruthi , Saeed Bagheri Sereshki

Although acoustic scenes and events include many related tasks, their combined detection and classification have been scarcely investigated. We propose three architectures of deep neural networks that are integrated to simultaneously…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Jee-weon Jung , Hye-jin Shim , Ju-ho Kim , Ha-Jin Yu

In real life, acoustic scenes and audio events are naturally correlated. Humans instinctively rely on fine-grained audio events as well as the overall sound characteristics to distinguish diverse acoustic scenes. Yet, most previous…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yuanbo Hou , Bo Kang , Wout Van Hauwermeiren , Dick Botteldooren

This technical report describes the SurreyAudioTeam22s submission for DCASE 2022 ASC Task 1, Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC). The task has two rules, (a) the ASC framework should have maximum 128K parameters, and (b)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-03 Arshdeep Singh , James A King , Xubo Liu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

This paper presents the Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification with Device Information Task of the DCASE 2025 Challenge, along with its baseline system. Continuing the focus on low-complexity models, data efficiency, and device…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Florian Schmid , Paul Primus , Toni Heittola , Annamaria Mesaros , Irene Martín-Morató , Gerhard Widmer

In this paper we present our work on Task 1 Acoustic Scene Classi- fication and Task 3 Sound Event Detection in Real Life Recordings. Among our experiments we have low-level and high-level features, classifier optimization and other…

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

Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance in acoustic scene classification (ASC) task. The audio data is often transformed into two-dimensional spectrogram representations, which are then…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Helin Wang , Yuexian Zou , Dading Chong

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) and acoustic event detection (AED) are different but related tasks. Acoustic events can provide useful information for recognizing acoustic scenes. However, most of the datasets are provided without…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Ruixiong Zhang , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) aims to classify an audio clip based on the characteristic of the recording environment. In this regard, deep learning based approaches have emerged as a useful tool for ASC problems. Conventional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Jianyuan Sun , Xubo Liu , Xinhao Mei , Jinzheng Zhao , Mark D. Plumbley , Volkan Kılıç , Wenwu Wang

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) predominantly relies on supervised approaches. However, acquiring labeled data for training ASC models is often costly and time-consuming. Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Yiqiang Cai , Shengchen Li , Xi Shao

Acoustic scene classification is a process of characterizing and classifying the environments from sound recordings. The first step is to generate features (representations) from the recorded sound and then classify the background…

The Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) consists of five audio classification and sound event detection tasks: 1) Acoustic scene classification, 2) General-purpose audio tagging of Freesound, 3) Bird audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Qiuqiang Kong , Turab Iqbal , Yong Xu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

In the acoustic scene classification (ASC) task, an acoustic scene consists of diverse sounds and is inferred by identifying combinations of distinct attributes among them. This study aims to extract and cluster these attributes effectively…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Won-Gook Choi , Joon-Hyuk Chang , Jae-Mo Yang , Han-Gil Moon

Environmental sound scene and sound event recognition is important for the recognition of suspicious events in indoor and outdoor environments (such as nurseries, smart homes, nursing homes, etc.) and is a fundamental task involved in many…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Nan Che , Chenrui Liu , Fei Yu