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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

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

Sound event detection (SED) and acoustic scene classification (ASC) are major tasks in environmental sound analysis. Considering that sound events and scenes are closely related to each other, some works have addressed joint analyses of…

Jointly learning from a small labeled set and a larger unlabeled set is an active research topic under semi-supervised learning (SSL). In this paper, we propose a novel SSL method based on a two-stage framework for leveraging a large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Tanmay Khandelwal , Rohan Kumar Das , Andrew Koh , Eng Siong Chng

Sound Event Detection (SED) is challenging in noisy environments where overlapping sounds obscure target events. Language-queried audio source separation (LASS) aims to isolate the target sound events from a noisy clip. However, this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Han Yin , Yang Xiao , Jisheng Bai , Rohan Kumar Das

This report presents the dataset and the evaluation setup of the Sound Event Localization & Detection (SELD) task for the DCASE 2020 Challenge. The SELD task refers to the problem of trying to simultaneously classify a known set of sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Archontis Politis , Sharath Adavanne , Tuomas Virtanen

This work aims to advance sound event detection (SED) research by presenting a new large language model (LLM)-powered dataset namely wild domestic environment sound event detection (WildDESED). It is crafted as an extension to the original…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Yang Xiao , Rohan Kumar Das

Sound event detection (SED) is a task to detect sound events in an audio recording. One challenge of the SED task is that many datasets such as the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) datasets are weakly…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Qiuqiang Kong , Yong Xu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

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

In conventional sound event detection (SED) models, two types of events, namely, those that are present and those that do not occur in an acoustic scene, are regarded as the same type of events. The conventional SED methods cannot…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Noriyuki Tonami , Keisuke Imoto , Yuki Okamoto , Takahiro Fukumori , Yoichi Yamashita

This paper presents the sound event localization and detection (SELD) task setup for the DCASE 2019 challenge. The goal of the SELD task is to detect the temporal activities of a known set of sound event classes, and further localize them…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Sharath Adavanne , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

Label noise is ubiquitous in various machine learning scenarios such as self-labeling with model predictions and erroneous data annotation. Many existing approaches are based on heuristics such as sample losses, which might not be flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Zhihao Wang , Zongyu Lin , Peiqi Liu , Guidong ZHeng , Junjie Wen , Xianxin Chen , Yujun Chen , Zhilin Yang

Recent advances in generating synthetic captions based on audio and related metadata allow using the information contained in natural language as input for other audio tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel method to guide a sound event…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Manu Harju , Annamaria Mesaros

Research on sound event detection (SED) in environmental settings has seen increased attention in recent years. The large amounts of (private) domestic or urban audio data needed raise significant logistical and privacy concerns. The…

This report presents the systems developed and submitted by Fortemedia Singapore (FMSG) and Joint Laboratory of Environmental Sound Sensing (JLESS) for DCASE 2024 Task 4. The task focuses on recognizing event classes and their time…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yang Xiao , Han Yin , Jisheng Bai , Rohan Kumar Das

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) is a joint task of sound event detection and direction-of-arrival estimation. In DCASE 2022 Task 3, types of data transform from computationally generated spatial recordings to recordings of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-12 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Qiuqiang Kong , Feiran Yang , Mark D. Plumbley , Jun Yang

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

For learning-based sound event localization and detection (SELD) methods, different acoustic environments in the training and test sets may result in large performance differences in the validation and evaluation stages. Different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Feiran Yang , Ziying Yu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley , Jun Yang

The performances of Sound Event Detection (SED) systems are greatly limited by the difficulty in generating large strongly labeled dataset. In this work, we used two main approaches to overcome the lack of strongly labeled data. First, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Hyeonuk Nam , Byeong-Yun Ko , Gyeong-Tae Lee , Seong-Hu Kim , Won-Ho Jung , Sang-Min Choi , Yong-Hwa Park

In this paper, we present a method called HODGEPODGE\footnotemark[1] for large-scale detection of sound events using weakly labeled, synthetic, and unlabeled data proposed in the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Ziqiang Shi , Liu Liu , Huibin Lin , Rujie Liu , Anyan Shi