Sound Event Detection with Sequentially Labelled Data Based on Connectionist Temporal Classification and Unsupervised Clustering

Yuanbo Hou, Qiuqiang Kong, Shengchen Li, Mark D. Plumbley

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Abstract

Sound event detection (SED) methods typically rely on either strongly labelled data or weakly labelled data. As an alternative, sequentially labelled data (SLD) was proposed. In SLD, the events and the order of events in audio clips are known, without knowing the occurrence time of events. This paper proposes a connectionist temporal classification (CTC) based SED system that uses SLD instead of strongly labelled data, with a novel unsupervised clustering stage. Experiments on 41 classes of sound events show that the proposed two-stage method trained on SLD achieves performance comparable to the previous state-of-the-art SED system trained on strongly labelled data, and is far better than another state-of-the-art SED system trained on weakly labelled data, which indicates the effectiveness of the proposed two-stage method trained on SLD without any onset/offset time of sound events.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages46-50
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781479981311
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019 - Brighton, United Kingdom
Duration: 12 May 201917 May 2019

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2019-May
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityBrighton
Period12/05/1917/05/19

Keywords

  • Sound event detection
  • connectionist temporal classification
  • convolutional recurrent neural network
  • sequentially labelled data
  • unsupervised clustering

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