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Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks for Polyphonic Sound Event Detection
Sound events often occur in unstructured environments where they exhibit wide
variations in their frequency content and temporal structure. Convolutional
neural networks (CNN) are able to extract higher level features that are
invariant to local spectral and temporal variations. Recurrent neural networks
(RNNs) are powerful in learning the longer term temporal context in the audio
signals. CNNs and RNNs as classifiers have recently shown improved performances
over established methods in various sound recognition tasks. We combine these
two approaches in a Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (CRNN) and apply it
on a polyphonic sound event detection task. We compare the performance of the
proposed CRNN method with CNN, RNN, and other established methods, and observe
a considerable improvement for four different datasets consisting of everyday
sound events.Comment: Accepted for IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language
Processing, Special Issue on Sound Scene and Event Analysi
Multi-Label Zero-Shot Human Action Recognition via Joint Latent Ranking Embedding
Human action recognition refers to automatic recognizing human actions from a
video clip. In reality, there often exist multiple human actions in a video
stream. Such a video stream is often weakly-annotated with a set of relevant
human action labels at a global level rather than assigning each label to a
specific video episode corresponding to a single action, which leads to a
multi-label learning problem. Furthermore, there are many meaningful human
actions in reality but it would be extremely difficult to collect/annotate
video clips regarding all of various human actions, which leads to a zero-shot
learning scenario. To the best of our knowledge, there is no work that has
addressed all the above issues together in human action recognition. In this
paper, we formulate a real-world human action recognition task as a multi-label
zero-shot learning problem and propose a framework to tackle this problem in a
holistic way. Our framework holistically tackles the issue of unknown temporal
boundaries between different actions for multi-label learning and exploits the
side information regarding the semantic relationship between different human
actions for knowledge transfer. Consequently, our framework leads to a joint
latent ranking embedding for multi-label zero-shot human action recognition. A
novel neural architecture of two component models and an alternate learning
algorithm are proposed to carry out the joint latent ranking embedding
learning. Thus, multi-label zero-shot recognition is done by measuring
relatedness scores of action labels to a test video clip in the joint latent
visual and semantic embedding spaces. We evaluate our framework with different
settings, including a novel data split scheme designed especially for
evaluating multi-label zero-shot learning, on two datasets: Breakfast and
Charades. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our
framework.Comment: 27 pages, 10 figures and 7 tables. Technical report submitted to a
journal. More experimental results/references were added and typos were
correcte
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