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Recent advances in multimodal generation have enabled high-quality audio generation from silent videos. Practical applications, such as sound production, demand not only the generated audio but also explicit sound event labels detailing the…

Generic event boundary detection (GEBD) aims to identify natural boundaries in a video, segmenting it into distinct and meaningful chunks. Despite the inherent subjectivity of event boundaries, previous methods have focused on deterministic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jaejun Hwang , Dayoung Gong , Manjin Kim , Minsu Cho

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are one of the best-performing neural network architectures for environmental sound classification (ESC). Recently, temporal attention mechanisms have been used in CNN to capture the useful information…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Helin Wang , Yuexian Zou , Dading Chong , Wenwu Wang

Target sound extraction (TSE) aims to extract the sound part of a target sound event class from a mixture audio with multiple sound events. The previous works mainly focus on the problems of weakly-labelled data, jointly learning and new…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Helin Wang , Dongchao Yang , Chao Weng , Jianwei Yu , Yuexian Zou

Detection of common events and scenes from audio is useful for extracting and understanding human contexts in daily life. Prior studies have shown that leveraging knowledge from a relevant domain is beneficial for a target acoustic event…

Wearable audio devices with active noise control (ANC) enhance listening comfort but often at the expense of situational awareness. However, this auditory isolation may mask crucial environmental cues, posing significant safety risks. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Jun-Wei Yeow , Ee-Leng Tan , Santi Peksi , Zhen-Ting Ong , Woon-Seng Gan

DNN-based methods have shown high performance in sound event localization and detection(SELD). While in real spatial sound scenes, reverberation and the imbalanced presence of various sound events increase the complexity of the SELD task.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Siwei Huang , Jianfeng Chen , Jisheng Bai , Yafei Jia , Dongzhe Zhang

This paper proposes a neural network architecture and training scheme to learn the start and end time of sound events (strong labels) in an audio recording given just the list of sound events existing in the audio without time information…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Sharath Adavanne , Tuomas Virtanen

While multitask and transfer learning has shown to improve the performance of neural networks in limited data settings, they require pretraining of the model on large datasets beforehand. In this paper, we focus on improving the performance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Soham Deshmukh , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

Leveraging the high temporal resolution and dynamic range, object detection with event cameras can enhance the performance and safety of automotive and robotics applications in real-world scenarios. However, processing sparse event data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shenqi Wang , Yingfu Xu , Amirreza Yousefzadeh , Sherif Eissa , Henk Corporaal , Federico Corradi , Guangzhi Tang

The Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events Challenge Task 4 aims to advance sound event detection (SED) systems in domestic environments by leveraging training data with different supervision uncertainty. Participants…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Samuele Cornell , Janek Ebbers , Constance Douwes , Irene Martín-Morató , Manu Harju , Annamaria Mesaros , Romain Serizel

This technical report outlines our approach to Task 3A of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2024, focusing on Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). SELD provides valuable insights by estimating…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Quoc Thinh Vo , David Han

This paper introduces a model of environmental acoustic scenes which adopts a morphological approach by ab-stracting temporal structures of acoustic scenes. To demonstrate its potential, this model is employed to evaluate the performance of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-03 Mathieu Lagrange , Grégoire Lafay , Mathias Rossignol , Emmanouil Benetos , Axel Roebel

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

In this paper, we introduce the concept of Eventness for audio event detection, which can, in part, be thought of as an analogue to Objectness from computer vision. The key observation behind the eventness concept is that audio events…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Phuong Pham , Juncheng Li , Joseph Szurley , Samarjit Das

In this paper, we present a gated convolutional recurrent neural network based approach to solve task 4, large-scale weakly labelled semi-supervised sound event detection in domestic environments, of the DCASE 2018 challenge. Gated linear…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Robert Harb , Franz Pernkopf

We propose a novel model for temporal detection and localization which allows the training of deep neural networks using only counts of event occurrences as training labels. This powerful weakly-supervised framework alleviates the burden of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Julien Schroeter , Kirill Sidorov , David Marshall

Event cameras asynchronously capture brightness changes with low latency, high temporal resolution, and high dynamic range. However, annotation of event data is a costly and laborious process, which limits the use of deep learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Simon Klenk , David Bonello , Lukas Koestler , Nikita Araslanov , Daniel Cremers

The ranking of sound event detection (SED) systems may be biased by assumptions inherent to evaluation criteria and to the choice of an operating point. This paper compares conventional event-based and segment-based criteria against the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Giacomo Ferroni , Nicolas Turpault , Juan Azcarreta , Francesco Tuveri , Romain Serizel , Çagdaş Bilen , Sacha Krstulović

In this paper, we describe our method for DCASE2019 task3: Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). We use four CRNN SELDnet-like single output models which run in a consecutive manner to recover all possible information of occurring…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Sławomir Kapka , Mateusz Lewandowski