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Identifying auditory attention by comparing auditory stimuli and corresponding brain responses, is known as auditory attention decoding (AAD). The majority of AAD algorithms utilize the so-called envelope entrainment mechanism, whereby…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Nhan Duc Thanh Nguyen , Huy Phan , Kaare Mikkelsen , Preben Kidmose

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

The performances of Sound Event Detection (SED) systems are greatly limited by the difficulty in generating large strongly labeled dataset. In this work, we used two main approaches to overcome the lack of strongly labeled data. First, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Hyeonuk Nam , Byeong-Yun Ko , Gyeong-Tae Lee , Seong-Hu Kim , Won-Ho Jung , Sang-Min Choi , Yong-Hwa Park

This paper introduces a zero-shot sound event classification (ZS-SEC) method to identify sound events that have never occurred in training data. In our previous work, we proposed a ZS-SEC method using sound attribute vectors (SAVs), where a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yi-Han Lin , Xunquan Chen , Ryoichi Takashima , Tetsuya Takiguchi

Sound event detection (SED) is an interesting but challenging task due to the scarcity of data and diverse sound events in real life. This paper presents a multi-grained based attention network (MGA-Net) for semi-supervised sound event…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ying Hu , Xiujuan Zhu , Yunlong Li , Hao Huang , Liang He

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

Keyword spotting and in particular Wake-Up-Word (WUW) detection is a very important task for voice assistants. A very common issue of voice assistants is that they get easily activated by background noise like music, TV or background speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-01 David Bonet , Guillermo Cámbara , Fernando López , Pablo Gómez , Carlos Segura , Jordi Luque

Environment shifts and conflicts present significant challenges for learning-based sound event localization and detection (SELD) methods. SELD systems, when trained in particular acoustic settings, often show restricted generalization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Qiuqiang Kong , Feiran Yang , Mark D. Plumbley , Jun Yang

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

Polyphonic sound event localization and detection is not only detecting what sound events are happening but localizing corresponding sound sources. This series of tasks was first introduced in DCASE 2019 Task 3. In 2020, the sound event…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Yin Cao , Turab Iqbal , Qiuqiang Kong , Yue Zhong , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

We explore on various attention methods on frequency and channel dimensions for sound event detection (SED) in order to enhance performance with minimal increase in computational cost while leveraging domain knowledge to address the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Hyeonuk Nam , Seong-Hu Kim , Deokki Min , Yong-Hwa Park

Polyphonic sound event detection (polyphonic SED) is an interesting but challenging task due to the concurrence of multiple sound events. Recently, SED methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) and recurrent neural networks (RNN)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-24 Yaming Liu , Jian Tang , Yan Song , Lirong Dai

Sound event localisation and detection (SELD) is a problem in the field of automatic listening that aims at the temporal detection and localisation (direction of arrival estimation) of sound events within an audio clip, usually of long…

Convolutional recurrent neural networks (CRNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for sound event detection (SED). In this paper, we propose to use a dilated CRNN, namely a CRNN with a dilated convolutional kernel, as the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Yanxiong Li , Mingle Liu , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

Current audio classification models have small class vocabularies relative to the large number of sound event classes of interest in the real world. Thus, they provide a limited view of the world that may miss important yet unexpected or…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Sripathi Sridhar , Mark Cartwright

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

Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection (ASD) aims to design a generalizable method that can be used to detect anomalies when only normal sounds are given. In this paper, Anomalous Sound Detection based on Diffusion Models (ASD-Diffusion) is…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Fengrun Zhang , Xiang Xie , Kai Guo

For learning-based sound event localization and detection (SELD) methods, different acoustic environments in the training and test sets may result in large performance differences in the validation and evaluation stages. Different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Feiran Yang , Ziying Yu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley , Jun Yang

Automatic evaluation for Open Domain Event Detection (ODED) is a highly challenging task, because ODED is characterized by a vast diversity of un-constrained output labels from various domains. Nearly all existing evaluation methods for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yi-Fan Lu , Xian-Ling Mao , Tian Lan , Tong Zhang , Yu-Shi Zhu , Heyan Huang

This paper presents the sound event localization and detection (SELD) task setup for the DCASE 2019 challenge. The goal of the SELD task is to detect the temporal activities of a known set of sound event classes, and further localize them…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Sharath Adavanne , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen