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This paper proposes a benchmark of submissions to Detection and Classification Acoustic Scene and Events 2021 Challenge (DCASE) Task 4 representing a sampling of the state-of-the-art in Sound Event Detection task. The submissions are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Francesca Ronchini , Romain Serizel

Sound event detection (SED) methods that leverage a large pre-trained Transformer encoder network have shown promising performance in recent DCASE challenges. However, they still rely on an RNN-based context network to model temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Pengfei Cai , Yan Song , Kang Li , Haoyu Song , Ian McLoughlin

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

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…

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) has seen substantial advancements through learning-based methods. These systems, typically trained from scratch on specific datasets, have shown considerable generalization capabilities.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Fang Kang , Feiran Yang , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley , Jun Yang

Sound event detection is a challenging task, especially for scenes with multiple simultaneous events. While event classification methods tend to be fairly accurate, event localization presents additional challenges, especially when large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-12 Sandeep Kothinti , Keisuke Imoto , Debmalya Chakrabarty , Gregory Sell , Shinji Watanabe , Mounya Elhilali

Sound event detection (SED) aims to detect when and recognize what sound events happen in an audio clip. Many supervised SED algorithms rely on strongly labelled data which contains the onset and offset annotations of sound events. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Qiuqiang Kong , Yong Xu , Iwona Sobieraj , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

We target the problem of developing new low-complexity networks for the sound event detection task. Our goal is to meticulously analyze the performance-complexity trade-off, aiming to be competitive with the large state-of-the-art models,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Tobias Morocutti , Florian Schmid , Jonathan Greif , Francesco Foscarin , Gerhard Widmer

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

Sound Event Early Detection (SEED) is an essential task in recognizing the acoustic environments and soundscapes. However, most of the existing methods focus on the offline sound event detection, which suffers from the over-confidence issue…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xujiang Zhao , Xuchao Zhang , Wei Cheng , Wenchao Yu , Yuncong Chen , Haifeng Chen , Feng Chen

Sound event detection (SED) is typically posed as a supervised learning problem requiring training data with strong temporal labels of sound events. However, the production of datasets with strong labels normally requires unaffordable labor…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Dezhi Wang , Lilun Zhang , Changchun Bao , Kele Xu , Boqing Zhu , Qiuqiang Kong

We present a new framework SoundDet, which is an end-to-end trainable and light-weight framework, for polyphonic moving sound event detection and localization. Prior methods typically approach this problem by preprocessing raw waveform into…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yuhang He , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Identification and localization of sounds are both integral parts of computational auditory scene analysis. Although each can be solved separately, the goal of forming coherent auditory objects and achieving a comprehensive spatial scene…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Ivo Trowitzsch , Christopher Schymura , Dorothea Kolossa , Klaus Obermayer

Sound Event Localization and Detection refers to the problem of identifying the presence of independent or temporally-overlapped sound sources, correctly identifying to which sound class it belongs, estimating their spatial directions while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Francesca Ronchini , Daniel Arteaga , Andrés Pérez-López

In this paper, we study the use of soft labels to train a system for sound event detection (SED). Soft labels can result from annotations which account for human uncertainty about categories, or emerge as a natural representation of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Irene Martín-Morató , Manu Harju , Paul Ahokas , Annamaria Mesaros

Humanoid robots require simultaneous sound event type and direction estimation for situational awareness, but conventional two-channel input struggles with elevation estimation and front-back confusion. This paper proposes a binaural sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Gyeong-Tae Lee

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

Performing an adequate evaluation of sound event detection (SED) systems is far from trivial and is still subject to ongoing research. The recently proposed polyphonic sound detection (PSD)-receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and PSD…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Janek Ebbers , Romain Serizel , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Sound event detection (SED) is an active area of audio research that aims to detect the temporal occurrence of sounds. In this paper, we apply SED to engine fault detection by introducing a multimodal SED framework that detects fine-grained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Dennis Fedorishin , Livio Forte , Philip Schneider , Srirangaraj Setlur , Venu Govindaraju

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