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We present a compact, quantization-ready acoustic scene classification (ASC) framework that couples an efficient student network with a learned teacher ensemble and knowledge distillation. The student backbone uses stacked…

In this technical report, we describe our submission for Task 1, Low-Complexity Device-Robust Acoustic Scene Classification, of the DCASE 2025 Challenge. Our work tackles the dual challenges of strict complexity constraints and robust…

The goal of the acoustic scene classification (ASC) task is to classify recordings into one of the predefined acoustic scene classes. However, in real-world scenarios, ASC systems often encounter challenges such as recording device…

In this technical report, a low-complexity deep learning system for acoustic scene classification (ASC) is presented. The proposed system comprises two main phases: (Phase I) Training a teacher network; and (Phase II) training a student…

In this technical report, we describe the SNTL-NTU team's submission for Task 1 Data-Efficient Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification of the detection and classification of acoustic scenes and events (DCASE) 2024 challenge. Three…

This work is an improved system that we submitted to task 1 of DCASE2023 challenge. We propose a method of low-complexity acoustic scene classification by a parallel attention-convolution network which consists of four modules, including…

In this paper, we presents a low-complexity deep learning frameworks for acoustic scene classification (ASC). The proposed framework can be separated into three main steps: Front-end spectrogram extraction, back-end classification, and late…

In this technical report, we present the SNTL-NTU team's Task 1 submission for the Low-Complexity Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2025 challenge. This submission departs from the typical application of knowledge distillation from a…

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) is highly important in the real world. Recently, deep learning-based methods have been widely employed for acoustic scene classification. However, these methods are currently not lightweight enough as…

We present a work on low-complexity acoustic scene classification (ASC) with multiple devices, namely the subtask A of Task 1 of the DCASE2021 challenge. This subtask focuses on classifying audio samples of multiple devices with a…

In this report, we presents low-complexity deep learning frameworks for acoustic scene classification (ASC). The proposed frameworks can be separated into four main steps: Front-end spectrogram extraction, online data augmentation, back-end…

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) models on edge devices typically operate under fixed class assumptions, lacking the transferability needed for real-world applications that require adaptation to new or refined acoustic categories. We…

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) identifies an environment based on an audio signal. This paper explores ASC in low-resource conditions and proposes a novel model, DS-FlexiNet, which combines depthwise separable convolutions from…

Knowledge distillation has been widely used to compress existing deep learning models while preserving the performance on a wide range of applications. In the specific context of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), distillation from…

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a widespread technique for compressing the knowledge of large models into more compact and efficient models. KD has proved to be highly effective in building well-performing low-complexity Acoustic Scene…

In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC), the task of identifying the scene of an audio recording from its acoustic signature. In particular, we firstly propose an inception-based and low…

Knowledge distillation is a popular technique for transferring the knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model by mimicking. However, distillation by directly aligning the feature maps between teacher and student may…

Both accuracy and efficiency are of significant importance to the task of semantic segmentation. Existing deep FCNs suffer from heavy computations due to a series of high-resolution feature maps for preserving the detailed knowledge in…

A good joint training framework is very helpful to improve the performances of weakly supervised audio tagging (AT) and acoustic event detection (AED) simultaneously. In this study, we propose three methods to improve the best…

This technical report describes the details of our TASK1A submission of the DCASE2021 challenge. The goal of the task is to design an audio scene classification system for device-imbalanced datasets under the constraints of model…