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This work defines a new framework for performance evaluation of polyphonic sound event detection (SED) systems, which overcomes the limitations of the conventional collar-based event decisions, event F-scores and event error rates. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Cagdas Bilen , Giacomo Ferroni , Francesco Tuveri , Juan Azcarreta , Sacha Krstulovic

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

Recently, an event-based end-to-end model (SEDT) has been proposed for sound event detection (SED) and achieves competitive performance. However, compared with the frame-based model, it requires more training data with temporal annotations…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zhirong Ye , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian , Rui Tao , Long Yan , Kazushige Ouchi

A large number of works view the automatic assessment of speech from an utterance- or system-level perspective. While such approaches are good in judging overall quality, they cannot adequately explain why a certain score was assigned to an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Michael Kuhlmann , Alexander Werning , Thilo von Neumann , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

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

This paper addresses the quantitative verification of finite-time constrained occupation time for stochastic continuous-time systems governed by stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Unlike classical reachability analysis, which focuses…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Bai Xue , C. -H. Luke Ong

In Agentic AI, Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the orchestration layer to coordinate multiple agents and to interact with external services, retrieval components, and shared memory. In this setting, failures are not…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ciprian Paduraru , Petru-Liviu Bouruc , Alin Stefanescu

This paper proposes a novel active boundary loss for semantic segmentation. It can progressively encourage the alignment between predicted boundaries and ground-truth boundaries during end-to-end training, which is not explicitly enforced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Chi Wang , Yunke Zhang , Miaomiao Cui , Peiran Ren , Yin Yang , Xuansong Xie , XianSheng Hua , Hujun Bao , Weiwei Xu

Immersive communication has made significant advancements, especially with the release of the codec for Immersive Voice and Audio Services. Aiming at its further realization, the DCASE 2025 Challenge has recently introduced a task for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Binh Thien Nguyen , Masahiro Yasuda , Daiki Takeuchi , Daisuke Niizumi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada

The goal of ordinal embedding is to represent items as points in a low-dimensional Euclidean space given a set of constraints in the form of distance comparisons like "item $i$ is closer to item $j$ than item $k$". Ordinal constraints like…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-24 Lalit Jain , Kevin Jamieson , Robert Nowak

Contracts specifying a procedure's behavior in terms of pre- and postconditions are essential for scalable software verification, but cannot express any constraints on the events occurring during execution of the procedure. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Richard Bubel , Dilian Gurov , Reiner Hähnle , Marco Scaletta

In this report, we propose three novel methods for developing a sound event detection (SED) model for the DCASE 2024 Challenge Task 4. First, we propose an auxiliary decoder attached to the final convolutional block to improve feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Sang Won Son , Jongyeon Park , Hong Kook Kim , Sulaiman Vesal , Jeong Eun Lim

Outdoor acoustic events detection is an exciting research field but challenged by the need for complex algorithms and deep learning techniques, typically requiring many computational, memory, and energy resources. This challenge discourages…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-30 Gianmarco Cerutti , Rahul Prasad , Alessio Brutti , Elisabetta Farella

Monitoring concurrent programs typically rely on collecting traces to abstract program executions. However, existing approaches targeting general behavioral properties are either not tailored for online monitoring, are no longer maintained,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Chukri Soueidi , Ylies Falcone

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

Decomposable tasks are complex and comprise of a hierarchy of sub-tasks. Spoken intent prediction, for example, combines automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding. Existing benchmarks, however, typically hold out…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Siddhant Arora , Alissa Ostapenko , Vijay Viswanathan , Siddharth Dalmia , Florian Metze , Shinji Watanabe , Alan W Black

Sound Event Detection (SED) aims to predict the temporal boundaries of all the events of interest and their class labels, given an unconstrained audio sample. Taking either the splitand-classify (i.e., frame-level) strategy or the more…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Swapnil Bhosale , Sauradip Nag , Diptesh Kanojia , Jiankang Deng , Xiatian Zhu

Spatial semantic segmentation of sound scenes (S5) involves the accurate identification of active sound classes and the precise separation of their sources from complex acoustic mixtures. Conventional systems rely on a two-stage pipeline -…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Tobias Morocutti , Jonathan Greif , Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

Sound event detection (SED) aims at identifying audio events (audio tagging task) in recordings and then locating them temporally (localization task). This last task ends with the segmentation of the frame-level class predictions, that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Leo Cances , Patrice Guyot , Thomas Pellegrini

Event-driven scheduling policies are increasingly deployed in industrial environments, where decisions are made under asynchronous and partially observed system states. As a result, decision states are not temporally consistent, action…

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