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Joint sound event localization and detection (SELD) is an integral part of developing context awareness into communication interfaces of mobile robots, smartphones, and home assistants. For example, an automatic audio focus for video…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Pasi Pertilä , Emre Cakir , Aapo Hakala , Eemi Fagerlund , Tuomas Virtanen , Archontis Politis , Antti Eronen

This work presents HDA-SELD, a unified framework that combines hierarchical cross-modal distillation (HCMD) and multi-level data augmentation to address low-resource audio-visual (AV) sound event localization and detection (SELD). An…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Qing Wang , Ya Jiang , Hang Chen , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Jun Du , Jianqing Gao

Polyphonic sound event detection and localization (SELD) task is challenging because it is difficult to jointly optimize sound event detection (SED) and direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in the same network. We propose a general network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Ngoc Khanh Nguyen , Huy Phan , Lam Pham , Kenneth Ooi , Douglas L. Jones , Woon-Seng Gan

This report presents the dataset and baseline of Task 3 of the DCASE2021 Challenge on Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). The dataset is based on emulation of real recordings of static or moving sound events under real conditions…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Archontis Politis , Sharath Adavanne , Daniel Krause , Antoine Deleforge , Prerak Srivastava , Tuomas Virtanen

In this paper, we propose a novel four-stage data augmentation approach to ResNet-Conformer based acoustic modeling for sound event localization and detection (SELD). First, we explore two spatial augmentation techniques, namely audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Qing Wang , Jun Du , Hua-Xin Wu , Jia Pan , Feng Ma , Chin-Hui Lee

In this paper, we propose a convolutional recurrent neural network for joint sound event localization and detection (SELD) of multiple overlapping sound events in three-dimensional (3D) space. The proposed network takes a sequence of…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Sharath Adavanne , Archontis Politis , Joonas Nikunen , Tuomas Virtanen

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) is an important task in machine listening. Major advancements rely on simulated data with sound events in specific rooms and strong spatio-temporal labels. SELD data is simulated by convolving…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Iran R. Roman , Christopher Ick , Sivan Ding , Adrian S. Roman , Brian McFee , Juan P. Bello

We present SELDVisualSynth, a tool for generating synthetic videos for audio-visual sound event localization and detection (SELD). Our approach incorporates real-world background images to improve realism in synthetic audio-visual SELD data…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Adrian S. Roman , Aiden Chang , Gerardo Meza , Iran R. Roman

This paper describes sound event localization and detection (SELD) for spatial audio recordings captured by firstorder ambisonics (FOA) microphones. In this task, one may train a deep neural network (DNN) using FOA data annotated with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yoto Fujita , Yoshiaki Bando , Keisuke Imoto , Masaki Onishi , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

As deeper and more complex models are developed for the task of sound event localization and detection (SELD), the demand for annotated spatial audio data continues to increase. Annotating field recordings with 360$^{\circ}$ video takes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Christopher Ick , Brian McFee

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) is critical for various real-world applications, including smart monitoring and Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Although deep neural networks (DNNs) represent the state-of-the-art approach for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Jun Wei Yeow , Ee-Leng Tan , Jisheng Bai , Santi Peksi , Woon-Seng Gan

Sound event detection (SED) entails identifying the type of sound and estimating its temporal boundaries from acoustic signals. These events are uniquely characterized by their spatio-temporal features, which are determined by the way they…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Tanmay Khandelwal , Rohan Kumar Das

Sound event detection (SED) is the task of identifying sound events along with their onset and offset times. A recent, convolutional neural networks based SED method, proposed the usage of depthwise separable (DWS) and time-dilated…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Konstantinos Drossos , Stylianos I. Mimilakis , Tuomas Virtanen

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

This technical report presents submission systems for Task 4 of the DCASE 2025 Challenge. This model incorporates additional audio features (spectral roll-off and chroma features) into the embedding feature extracted from the mel-spectral…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Jongyeon Park , Joonhee Lee , Do-Hyeon Lim , Hong Kook Kim , Hyeongcheol Geum , Jeong Eun Lim

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) is a task for the classification of sound events and the identification of direction of arrival (DoA) utilizing multichannel acoustic signals. For effective classification and localization, a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Yusun Shul , Dayun Choi , Jung-Woo Choi

Spatial semantic segmentation of sound scenes (S5) involves the accurate identification of active sound classes and the precise separation of their sources from complex acoustic mixtures. Conventional systems rely on a two-stage pipeline -…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Tobias Morocutti , Jonathan Greif , Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models offer powerful representations for sound event detection (SED), yet their synergistic potential remains underexplored. This study systematically evaluates state-of-the-art SSL models to guide optimal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Hanfang Cui , Longfei Song , Li Li , Dongxing Xu , Yanhua Long

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

Sound event detection (SED) is the task of tagging the absence or presence of audio events and their corresponding interval within a given audio clip. While SED can be done using supervised machine learning, where training data is fully…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Heinrich Dinkel , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu