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Although prototypical network (ProtoNet) has proved to be an effective method for few-shot sound event detection, two problems still exist. Firstly, the small-scaled support set is insufficient so that the class prototypes may not represent…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Dongchao Yang , Helin Wang , Yuexian Zou , Zhongjie Ye , Wenwu Wang

Federated learning is a privacy-preserving approach to train a global model at a central server by collaborating with wireless devices, each with its own local training data set. In this paper, we present a compressive sensing approach for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Yo-Seb Jeon , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Jun Li , H. Vincent Poor

Weakly labelled audio tagging aims to predict the classes of sound events within an audio clip, where the onset and offset times of the sound events are not provided. Previous works have used the multiple instance learning (MIL) framework,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-04 Helin Wang , Yuexian Zou , Wenwu Wang

We propose a simple recurrent model for detecting rare sound events, when the time boundaries of events are available for training. Our model optimizes the combination of an utterance-level loss, which classifies whether an event occurs in…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Weiran Wang , Chieh-chi Kao , Chao Wang

Since the preparation of labeled data for training semantic segmentation networks of point clouds is a time-consuming process, weakly supervised approaches have been introduced to learn from only a small fraction of data. These methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Gengxin Liu , Oliver van Kaick , Hui Huang , Ruizhen Hu

Acoustic Word Embeddings (AWEs) improve the efficiency of speech retrieval tasks such as Spoken Term Detection (STD) and Keyword Spotting (KWS). However, existing approaches suffer from limitations, including unimodal supervision, disjoint…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ramesh Gundluru , Shubham Gupta , Sri Rama Murty K

High-quality labels are often very scarce, whereas unlabeled data with inferred weak labels occurs more naturally. In many cases, these weak labels dictate the frequency of each respective class over a set of instances. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Vinay Shukla , Zhe Zeng , Kareem Ahmed , Guy Van den Broeck

Despite recent progress in large-scale sound event detection (SED) systems capable of handling hundreds of sound classes, existing multi-class classification frameworks remain fundamentally limited. They cannot process free-text sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Jiarui Hai , Helin Wang , Weizhe Guo , Mounya Elhilali

This paper proposes a neural network architecture and training scheme to learn the start and end time of sound events (strong labels) in an audio recording given just the list of sound events existing in the audio without time information…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Sharath Adavanne , Tuomas Virtanen

In this paper, we propose a model for bird sound event detection that focuses on a small number of training samples within the everyday long-tail distribution. As a result, we investigate bird sound detection using the few-shot learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Lingwen Liu , Yuxuan Feng , Haitao Fu , Yajie Yang , Xin Pan , Chenlei Jin

Audio-visual segmentation (AVS) aims to segment the sounding objects in video frames. Although great progress has been witnessed, we experimentally reveal that current methods reach marginal performance gain within the use of the unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jinxiang Liu , Yikun Liu , Fei Zhang , Chen Ju , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Weak signal learning (WSL) is a common challenge in many fields like fault diagnosis, medical imaging, and autonomous driving, where critical information is often masked by noise and interference, making feature identification difficult.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xianqi Liu , Xiangru Li , Lefeng He , Ziyu Fang

In this technique report, we present a bunch of methods for the task 4 of Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events 2017 (DCASE2017) challenge. This task evaluates systems for the large-scale detection of sound events using…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Yong Xu , Qiuqiang Kong , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Understanding human behavior is an important problem in the pursuit of visual intelligence. A challenge in this endeavor is the extensive and costly effort required to accurately label action segments. To address this issue, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Seth Z. Zhao , Reza Ghoddoosian , Isht Dwivedi , Nakul Agarwal , Behzad Dariush

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

Large scale datasets created from crowdsourced labels or openly available data have become crucial to provide training data for large scale learning algorithms. While these datasets are easier to acquire, the data are frequently noisy and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Rodrigo Caye Daudt , Bertrand Le Saux , Alexandre Boulch , Yann Gousseau

In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interests in learning a suitable distance metric from weakly supervised data. Most existing methods aim to pull all the similar samples closer while push the dissimilar ones as far as possible.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Huiyuan Deng , Xiangzhu Meng , Lin Feng

This report presents our audio event detection system submitted for Task 2, "Detection of rare sound events", of DCASE 2017 challenge. The proposed system is based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and deep neural networks (DNNs)…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Huy Phan , Martin Krawczyk-Becker , Timo Gerkmann , Alfred Mertins

In this work, a novel deep neural network, designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of unsupervised sound anomaly detection, is presented. The proposed model exploits an attention module and separable convolutions to identify…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Michael Neri , Marco Carli

Federated Learning (FL) is a powerful framework for privacy-preserving distributed learning. It enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing raw data. However, handling noisy labels in FL remains a major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Seunghun Yu , Jin-Hyun Ahn , Joonhyuk Kang