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Human listeners exhibit the remarkable ability to segregate a desired sound from complex acoustic scenes through selective auditory attention, motivating the study of Targeted Sound Detection (TSD). The task requires detecting and…

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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

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) predominantly relies on supervised approaches. However, acquiring labeled data for training ASC models is often costly and time-consuming. Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Yiqiang Cai , Shengchen Li , Xi Shao

Source separation (SS) aims to separate individual sources from an audio recording. Sound event detection (SED) aims to detect sound events from an audio recording. We propose a joint separation-classification (JSC) model trained only on…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Qiuqiang Kong , Yong Xu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

While there has been much recent progress using deep learning techniques to separate speech and music audio signals, these systems typically require large collections of isolated sources during the training process. When extending audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Fatemeh Pishdadian , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

We propose Universal target audio Separation (UniSep), addressing the separation task on arbitrary mixtures of different types of audio. Distinguished from previous studies, UniSep is performed on unlimited source domains and unlimited…

We address the problem of acoustic source separation in a deep learning framework we call "deep clustering." Rather than directly estimating signals or masking functions, we train a deep network to produce spectrogram embeddings that are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-19 John R. Hershey , Zhuo Chen , Jonathan Le Roux , Shinji Watanabe

Training deep networks for semantic segmentation requires large amounts of labeled training data, which presents a major challenge in practice, as labeling segmentation masks is a highly labor-intensive process. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Lukas Hoyer , Dengxin Dai , Qin Wang , Yuhua Chen , Luc Van Gool

In this paper, we present a deep learning framework applied for Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC), the task of classifying scene contexts from environmental input sounds. An ASC system generally comprises of two main steps, referred to as…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Dat Ngo , Hao Hoang , Anh Nguyen , Tien Ly , Lam Pham

In this technique report, we present a bunch of methods for the task 4 of Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events 2017 (DCASE2017) challenge. This task evaluates systems for the large-scale detection of sound events using…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Yong Xu , Qiuqiang Kong , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Weakly Labelled learning has garnered lot of attention in recent years due to its potential to scale Sound Event Detection (SED) and is formulated as Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) problem. This paper proposes a Multi-Task Learning (MTL)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Soham Deshmukh , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

We introduce a U-net model for 360{\deg} acoustic source localization formulated as a spherical semantic segmentation task. Rather than regressing discrete direction-of-arrival (DoA) angles, our model segments beamformed audio maps (azimuth…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Belman Jahir Rodriguez , Sergio F. Chevtchenko , Marcelo Herrera Martinez , Yeshwanth Bethi , Saeed Afshar

This technical report describes the CP-JKU team's submission for Task 4 Sound Event Detection with Heterogeneous Training Datasets and Potentially Missing Labels of the DCASE 24 Challenge. We fine-tune three large Audio Spectrogram…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Florian Schmid , Paul Primus , Tobias Morocutti , Jonathan Greif , Gerhard Widmer

This paper proposes a universal sound separation (USS) method capable of handling untrained sampling frequencies (SFs). The USS aims at separating arbitrary sources of different types and can be the key technique to realize a source…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Tomohiko Nakamura , Kohei Yatabe

We consider the problem of audio voice separation for binaural applications, such as earphones and hearing aids. While today's neural networks perform remarkably well (separating $4+$ sources with 2 microphones) they assume a known or fixed…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Zhongweiyang Xu , Romit Roy Choudhury

In this paper, we introduce UnFuSeD, a novel approach to leverage self-supervised learning and reduce the need for large amounts of labeled data for audio classification. Unlike prior works, which directly fine-tune a self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Ashish Seth , Sreyan Ghosh , S. Umesh , Dinesh Manocha

This report proposes a polyphonic sound event detection (SED) method for the DCASE 2021 Challenge Task 4. The proposed SED model consists of two stages: a mean-teacher model for providing target labels regarding weakly labeled or unlabeled…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Nam Kyun Kim , Hong Kook Kim

Multi-channel target speaker extraction (MC-TSE) aims to extract a target speaker's voice from multi-speaker signals captured by multiple microphones. Existing methods often rely on auxiliary clues such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Tongtao Ling , Shulin He , Pengjie Shen , Zhong-Qiu Wang

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

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a desired speaker's voice from a multi-speaker mixture using auxiliary information such as a reference utterance. Although recent advances in diffusion and flow-matching models have improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Riki Shimizu , Xilin Jiang , Nima Mesgarani