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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.…

Many methods of sound event detection (SED) based on machine learning regard a segmented time frame as one data sample to model training. However, the sound durations of sound events vary greatly depending on the sound event class, e.g.,…

The recent success of deep learning is mostly due to the availability of big datasets with clean annotations. However, gathering a cleanly annotated dataset is not always feasible due to practical challenges. As a result, label noise is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Görkem Algan , İlkay Ulusoy

Data lies at the core of modern deep learning. The impressive performance of supervised learning is built upon a base of massive accurately labeled data. However, in some real-world applications, accurate labeling might not be viable;…

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

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

Current deep learning paradigms largely benefit from the tremendous amount of annotated data. However, the quality of the annotations often varies among labelers. Multi-observer studies have been conducted to study these annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Xiaosong Wang , Ziyue Xu , Dong Yang , Leo Tam , Holger Roth , Daguang Xu

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

We propose a meta-learning method for learning from multiple noisy annotators. In many applications such as crowdsourcing services, labels for supervised learning are given by multiple annotators. Since the annotators have different skills…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Atsutoshi Kumagai , Tomoharu Iwata , Taishi Nishiyama , Yasutoshi Ida , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

We propose an adaptive change point detection method (A-CPD) for machine guided weak label annotation of audio recording segments. The goal is to maximize the amount of information gained about the temporal activations of the target sounds.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-27 John Martinsson , Olof Mogren , Maria Sandsten , Tuomas Virtanen

Research on sound event detection (SED) with weak labeling has mostly focused on presence/absence labeling, which provides no temporal information at all about the event occurrences. In this paper, we consider SED with sequential labeling,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Yun Wang , Florian Metze

In sound event detection (SED), overlapping sound events pose a significant challenge, as certain events can be easily masked by background noise or other events, resulting in poor detection performance. To address this issue, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Han Yin , Jisheng Bai , Yang Xiao , Hui Wang , Siqi Zheng , Yafeng Chen , Rohan Kumar Das , Chong Deng , Jianfeng Chen

Given multiple datasets with different label spaces, the goal of this work is to train a single object detector predicting over the union of all the label spaces. The practical benefits of such an object detector are obvious and significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Xiangyun Zhao , Samuel Schulter , Gaurav Sharma , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Manmohan Chandraker , Ying Wu

Object detection with event cameras benefits from the sensor's low latency and high dynamic range. However, it is costly to fully label event streams for supervised training due to their high temporal resolution. To reduce this cost, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Ziyi Wu , Mathias Gehrig , Qing Lyu , Xudong Liu , Igor Gilitschenski

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

Data collection and annotation is a laborious, time-consuming prerequisite for supervised machine learning tasks. Online Active Learning (OAL) is a paradigm that addresses this issue by simultaneously minimizing the amount of annotation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-29 Mark Lindsey , Ankit Shah , Francis Kubala , Richard M. Stern

A sound event detection (SED) method typically takes as an input a sequence of audio frames and predicts the activities of sound events in each frame. In real-life recordings, the sound events exhibit some temporal structure: for instance,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Konstantinos Drossos , Shayan Gharib , Paul Magron , Tuomas Virtanen

Most existing sound event detection~(SED) algorithms operate under a closed-set assumption, restricting their detection capabilities to predefined classes. While recent efforts have explored language-driven zero-shot SED by exploiting…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Pengfei Cai , Yan Song , Qing Gu , Nan Jiang , Haoyu Song , Ian McLoughlin

Label noise is ubiquitous in real-world scenarios, posing a practical challenge to supervised models due to its effect in hurting the generalization performance of deep neural networks. Existing methods primarily employ the sample selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Mengmeng Sheng , Zeren Sun , Tao Chen , Shuchao Pang , Yucheng Wang , Yazhou Yao

Extracting noisy or incorrectly labeled samples from a labeled dataset with hard/difficult samples is an important yet under-explored topic. Two general and often independent lines of work exist, one focuses on addressing noisy labels, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Mahsa Forouzesh , Patrick Thiran