Acoustic Event Detection and Localization with Regression Forests

This paper proposes an approach for the efficient automatic joint detection and localization of single-channel acoustic events using random forest regression. The audio signals are decomposed into multiple densely overlapping {\em superframes} annotated with event class labels and their displacements to the temporal starting and ending points of the events. Using the displacement information, a multivariate random forest regression model is learned for each event category to map each superframe to continuous estimates of onset and offset locations of the events. In addition, two classifiers are trained using random forest classification to classify superframes of background and different event categories. On testing, based on the detection of category-specific superframes using the classifiers, the learned regressor provides the estimates of onset and offset locations in time of the corresponding event. While posing event detection and localization as a regression problem is novel, the quantitative evaluation on ITC-Irst database of highly variable acoustic events shows the efficiency and potential of the proposed approach

Experiments on the DCASE Challenge 2016: Acoustic Scene Classification and Sound Event Detection in Real Life Recording

In this paper we present our work on Task 1 Acoustic Scene Classi- fication and Task 3 Sound Event Detection in Real Life Recordings. Among our experiments we have low-level and high-level features, classifier optimization and other heuristics specific to each task. Our performance for both tasks improved the baseline from DCASE: for Task 1 we achieved an overall accuracy of 78.9% compared to the baseline of 72.6% and for Task 3 we achieved a Segment-Based Error Rate of 0.76 compared to the baseline of 0.91

Acoustic event detection for multiple overlapping similar sources

Many current paradigms for acoustic event detection (AED) are not adapted to the organic variability of natural sounds, and/or they assume a limit on the number of simultaneous sources: often only one source, or one source of each type, may be active. These aspects are highly undesirable for applications such as bird population monitoring. We introduce a simple method modelling the onsets, durations and offsets of acoustic events to avoid intrinsic limits on polyphony or on inter-event temporal patterns. We evaluate the method in a case study with over 3000 zebra finch calls. In comparison against a HMM-based method we find it more accurate at recovering acoustic events, and more robust for estimating calling rates.Comment: Accepted for WASPAA 201