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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

To improve device robustness, a highly desirable key feature of a competitive data-driven acoustic scene classification (ASC) system, a novel two-stage system based on fully convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is proposed. Our two-stage…

This article describes the Data-Efficient Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification Task in the DCASE 2024 Challenge and the corresponding baseline system. The task setup is a continuation of previous editions (2022 and 2023), which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Florian Schmid , Paul Primus , Toni Heittola , Annamaria Mesaros , Irene Martín-Morató , Khaled Koutini , 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…

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

We present a compact, quantization-ready acoustic scene classification (ASC) framework that couples an efficient student network with a learned teacher ensemble and knowledge distillation. The student backbone uses stacked…

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…

We present an iVector based Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) system suited for real life settings where active foreground speech can be present. In the proposed system, each recording is represented by a fixed-length iVector that models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Siyuan Song , Brecht Desplanques , Celest De Moor , Kris Demuynck , Nilesh Madhu

In this work, we compare the performance of three selected techniques in open set acoustic scenes classification (ASC). We test thresholding of the softmax output of a deep network classifier, which is the most popular technique nowadays…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Zuzanna Kwiatkowska , Beniamin Kalinowski , Michał Kośmider , Krzysztof Rykaczewski

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 technical report, we describe our submission for Task 1, Low-Complexity Device-Robust Acoustic Scene Classification, of the DCASE 2025 Challenge. Our work tackles the dual challenges of strict complexity constraints and robust…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Seung Gyu Jeong , Seong Eun Kim

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) suffers from device-induced domain shift, especially when labels are limited. Prior work focuses on curriculum-based training schedules that structure data presentation by ordering or reweighting training…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Peihong Zhang , Yuxuan Liu , Rui Sang , Zhixin Li , Yiqiang Cai , Yizhou Tan , Shengchen Li

Recent efforts have been made on acoustic scene classification in the audio signal processing community. In contrast, few studies have been conducted on acoustic scene clustering, which is a newly emerging problem. Acoustic scene clustering…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Yanxiong Li , Mingle Liu , Wucheng Wang , Yuhan Zhang , Qianhua He

Frequently misclassified pairs of classes that share many common acoustic properties exist in acoustic scene classification (ASC). To distinguish such pairs of classes, trivial details scattered throughout the data could be vital clues.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Hye-jin Shim , Jee-weon Jung , Ju-ho Kim , Ha-jin Yu

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) is one of the core research problems in the field of Computational Sound Scene Analysis. In this work, we present SubSpectralNet, a novel model which captures discriminative features by incorporating…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Sai Samarth R Phaye , Emmanouil Benetos , Ye Wang

In this article we present an account of the state-of-the-art in acoustic scene classification (ASC), the task of classifying environments from the sounds they produce. Starting from a historical review of previous research in this area, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-04-08 Daniele Barchiesi , Dimitrios Giannoulis , Dan Stowell , Mark D. Plumbley

In the past, Acoustic Scene Classification systems have been based on hand crafting audio features that are input to a classifier. Nowadays, the common trend is to adopt data driven techniques, e.g., deep learning, where audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Eduardo Fonseca , Rong Gong , Xavier Serra

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) is a problem related to the field of machine listening whose objective is to classify/tag an audio clip in a predefined label describing a scene location (e. g. park, airport, etc.). Many state-of-the-art…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Javier Naranjo-Alcazar , Sergi Perez-Castanos , Pedro Zuccarello , Maximo Cobos

Recently, audio-visual scene classification (AVSC) has attracted increasing attention from multidisciplinary communities. Previous studies tended to adopt a pipeline training strategy, which uses well-trained visual and acoustic encoders to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Chengxin Chen , Meng Wang , Pengyuan Zhang

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