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In this report, we propose three novel methods for developing a sound event detection (SED) model for the DCASE 2024 Challenge Task 4. First, we propose an auxiliary decoder attached to the final convolutional block to improve feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Sang Won Son , Jongyeon Park , Hong Kook Kim , Sulaiman Vesal , Jeong Eun Lim

To tackle sound event detection (SED), we propose frequency dependent networks (FreDNets), which heavily leverage frequency-dependent methods. We apply frequency warping and FilterAugment, which are frequency-dependent data augmentation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Hyeonuk Nam , Deokki Min , Seungdeok Choi , Inhan Choi , Yong-Hwa Park

In this paper we present our system for the detection and classification of acoustic scenes and events (DCASE) 2020 Challenge Task 4: Sound event detection and separation in domestic environments. We introduce two new models: the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 Janek Ebbers , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

This report proposes a polyphonic sound event detection (SED) method for the DCASE 2021 Challenge Task 4. The proposed SED model consists of two stages: a mean-teacher model for providing target labels regarding weakly labeled or unlabeled…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Nam Kyun Kim , Hong Kook Kim

In this paper, we propose a method for incremental learning of two distinct tasks over time: acoustic scene classification (ASC) and audio tagging (AT). We use a simple convolutional neural network (CNN) model as an incremental learner to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Manjunath Mulimani , Annamaria Mesaros

This paper presents our system for the MISP-Meeting Challenge Track 2. The primary difficulty lies in the dataset, which contains strong background noise, reverberation, overlapping speech, and diverse meeting topics. To address these…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Longjie Luo , Shenghui Lu , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

This paper proposes a benchmark of submissions to Detection and Classification Acoustic Scene and Events 2021 Challenge (DCASE) Task 4 representing a sampling of the state-of-the-art in Sound Event Detection task. The submissions are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Francesca Ronchini , Romain Serizel

This paper presents DCASE 2018 task 4. The task evaluates systems for the large-scale detection of sound events using weakly labeled data (without time boundaries). The target of the systems is to provide not only the event class but also…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Romain Serizel , Nicolas Turpault , Hamid Eghbal-Zadeh , Ankit Parag Shah

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

We propose a method to perform audio event detection under the common constraint that only limited training data are available. In training a deep learning system to perform audio event detection, two practical problems arise. Firstly, most…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Veronica Morfi , Dan Stowell

We present a noise-aware, sensor-specific ensemble approach for robust human activity recognition on the 2nd WEAR Dataset Challenge. Our method leverages the PatchTST transformer architecture, training four independent models-one per…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Pavankumar Chandankar , Robin Burchard

The study of label noise in sound event recognition has recently gained attention with the advent of larger and noisier datasets. This work addresses the problem of missing labels, one of the big weaknesses of large audio datasets, and one…

While multitask and transfer learning has shown to improve the performance of neural networks in limited data settings, they require pretraining of the model on large datasets beforehand. In this paper, we focus on improving the performance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Soham Deshmukh , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

In recent years, exploring effective sound separation (SSep) techniques to improve overlapping sound event detection (SED) attracts more and more attention. Creating accurate separation signals to avoid the catastrophic error accumulation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Yunhao Liang , Yanhua Long , Yijie Li , Jiaen Liang

Anomalous Sound Detection (ASD) is often formulated as a machine attribute classification task, a strategy necessitated by the common scenario where only normal data is available for training. However, the exhaustive collection of machine…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xin Fang , Guirui Zhong , Qing Wang , Fan Chu , Lei Wang , Mengui Qian , Mingqi Cai , Jiangzhao Wu , Jianqing Gao , Jun Du

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

This technical report describes Johns Hopkins University speaker recognition system submitted to Voxceleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2021 Track 3: Self-supervised speaker verification (closed). Our overall training process is similar to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Jejin Cho , Jesus Villalba , Najim Dehak

This report proposes a polyphonic sound event detection (SED) method for the DCASE 2020 Challenge Task 4. The proposed SED method is based on semi-supervised learning to deal with the different combination of training datasets such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Nam Kyun Kim , Hong Kook Kim

In this paper, we propose a novel formula-driven supervised learning (FDSL) framework for pre-training an environmental sound analysis model by leveraging acoustic signals parametrically synthesized through formula-driven methods.…

Weakly Supervised Sound Event Detection (WSSED), which relies on audio tags without precise onset and offset times, has become prevalent due to the scarcity of strongly labeled data that includes exact temporal boundaries for events. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Yuliang Zhang , Defeng , Huang , Roberto Togneri