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First-shot (FS) unsupervised anomalous sound detection (ASD) is a brand-new task introduced in DCASE 2023 Challenge Task 2, where the anomalous sounds for the target machine types are unseen in training. Existing methods often rely on the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hejing Zhang , Qiaoxi Zhu , Jian Guan , Haohe Liu , Feiyang Xiao , Jiantong Tian , Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Wenwu Wang

State-of-the-art anomalous sound detection (ASD) systems in domain-shifted conditions rely on projecting audio signals into an embedding space and using distance-based outlier detection to compute anomaly scores. One of the major…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Kevin Wilkinghoff , Haici Yang , Janek Ebbers , François G. Germain , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection (ASD) aims to design a generalizable method that can be used to detect anomalies when only normal sounds are given. In this paper, Anomalous Sound Detection based on Diffusion Models (ASD-Diffusion) is…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Fengrun Zhang , Xiang Xie , Kai Guo

When detecting anomalous sounds in complex environments, one of the main difficulties is that trained models must be sensitive to subtle differences in monitored target signals, while many practical applications also require them to be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Kevin Wilkinghoff , Takuya Fujimura , Keisuke Imoto , Jonathan Le Roux , Zheng-Hua Tan , Tomoki Toda

Existing contrastive learning methods for anomalous sound detection refine the audio representation of each audio sample by using the contrast between the samples' augmentations (e.g., with time or frequency masking). However, they might be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jian Guan , Feiyang Xiao , Youde Liu , Qiaoxi Zhu , Wenwu Wang

This paper proposes a method for generating machine-type-specific anomalies to evaluate the relative performance of unsupervised anomalous sound detection (UASD) systems across different machine types, even in the absence of real anomaly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Harsh Purohit , Tomoya Nishida , Kota Dohi , Takashi Endo , Yohei Kawaguchi

In this paper, we present the task description and discuss the results of the DCASE 2020 Challenge Task 2: Unsupervised Detection of Anomalous Sounds for Machine Condition Monitoring. The goal of anomalous sound detection (ASD) is to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Yuma Koizumi , Yohei Kawaguchi , Keisuke Imoto , Toshiki Nakamura , Yuki Nikaido , Ryo Tanabe , Harsh Purohit , Kaori Suefusa , Takashi Endo , Masahiro Yasuda , Noboru Harada

We address a practical scenario of anomaly detection for industrial sound data, where the sound of a target machine is corrupted by background noise and interference from neighboring machines. Overcoming this challenge is difficult since…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yunjoo Lee , Jaechang Kim , Jungseul Ok

State-of-the-art anomalous sound detection systems often utilize angular margin losses to learn suitable representations of acoustic data using an auxiliary task, which usually is a supervised or self-supervised classification task. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Kevin Wilkinghoff , Frank Kurth

Speaker recognition is an active research area that contains notable usage in biometric security and authentication system. Currently, there exist many well-performing models in the speaker recognition domain. However, most of the advanced…

Anomalous sound detection (ASD) in the wild requires robustness to distribution shifts such as unseen low-SNR input mixtures of machine and noise types. State-of-the-art systems extract embeddings from an adapted audio encoder and detect…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Phurich Saengthong , Tomoya Nishida , Kota Dohi , Natsuo Yamashita , Yohei Kawaguchi

Early detection of factory machinery malfunctions is crucial in industrial applications. In machine anomalous sound detection (ASD), different machines exhibit unique vibration-frequency ranges based on their physical properties. Meanwhile,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Kai Li , Khalid Zaman , Xingfeng Li , Masato Akagi , Masashi Unoki

Self-supervised learning methods have achieved promising performance for anomalous sound detection (ASD) under domain shift, where the type of domain shift is considered in feature learning by incorporating section IDs. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Haiyan Lan , Qiaoxi Zhu , Jian Guan , Yuming Wei , Wenwu Wang

We present the task description and discussion on the results of the DCASE 2021 Challenge Task 2. In 2020, we organized an unsupervised anomalous sound detection (ASD) task, identifying whether a given sound was normal or anomalous without…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Yohei Kawaguchi , Keisuke Imoto , Yuma Koizumi , Noboru Harada , Daisuke Niizumi , Kota Dohi , Ryo Tanabe , Harsh Purohit , Takashi Endo

Although automatic pathological speech detection approaches show promising results when clean recordings are available, they are vulnerable to additive noise. Recently it has been shown that databases commonly used to develop and evaluate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Mahdi Amiri , Ina Kodrasi

Training-free anomalous sound detection (ASD) based on pre-trained audio embedding models has recently garnered significant attention, as it enables the detection of anomalous sounds using only normal reference data while offering improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Kevin Wilkinghoff , Sarthak Yadav , Zheng-Hua Tan

Detecting subtle deviations in noisy acoustic environments is central to anomalous sound detection (ASD). A common training-free ASD pipeline temporally pools frame-level representations into a band-preserving feature vector and scores…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Phurich Saengthong , Takahiro Shinozaki

Timbre allows us to distinguish between sounds even when they share the same pitch and loudness, playing an important role in music, instrument recognition, and speech. Traditional approaches, such as frequency analysis or machine learning,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Gakusei Sato , Hiroya Nakao , Riccardo Muolo

Machine anomalous sound detection (ASD) is a valuable technique across various applications. However, its generalization performance is often limited due to challenges in data collection and the complexity of acoustic environments. Inspired…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bing Han , Anbai Jiang , Xinhu Zheng , Wei-Qiang Zhang , Jia Liu , Pingyi Fan , Yanmin Qian

Different machines can exhibit diverse frequency patterns in their emitted sound. This feature has been recently explored in anomaly sound detection and reached state-of-the-art performance. However, existing methods rely on the manual or…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Hejing Zhang , Jian Guan , Qiaoxi Zhu , Feiyang Xiao , Youde Liu