Deep Convolutional Neural Network with Structured Prediction for Weakly Supervised Audio Event Detection

Audio event detection (AED) is a task of recognizing the types of audio events in an audio stream and estimating their temporal positions. AED is typically based on fully supervised approaches, requiring strong labels including both the presence and temporal position of each audio event. However, fu...

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Main Authors: Inkyu Choi, Soo Hyun Bae, Nam Soo Kim
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-06-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/9/11/2302
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description Audio event detection (AED) is a task of recognizing the types of audio events in an audio stream and estimating their temporal positions. AED is typically based on fully supervised approaches, requiring strong labels including both the presence and temporal position of each audio event. However, fully supervised datasets are not easily available due to the heavy cost of human annotation. Recently, weakly supervised approaches for AED have been proposed, utilizing large scale datasets with weak labels including only the occurrence of events in recordings. In this work, we introduce a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model called DSNet based on densely connected convolution networks (DenseNets) and squeeze-and-excitation networks (SENets) for weakly supervised training of AED. DSNet alleviates the vanishing-gradient problem and strengthens feature propagation and models interdependencies between channels. We also propose a structured prediction method for weakly supervised AED. We apply a recurrent neural network (RNN) based framework and a prediction smoothness cost function to consider long-term contextual information with reduced error propagation. In post-processing, conditional random fields (CRFs) are applied to take into account the dependency between segments and delineate the borders of audio events precisely. We evaluated our proposed models on the DCASE 2017 task 4 dataset and obtained state-of-the-art results on both audio tagging and event detection tasks.
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spelling doaj.art-32a8c26516c04ef6ac5ae45c0830268b2022-12-21T16:58:39ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172019-06-01911230210.3390/app9112302app9112302Deep Convolutional Neural Network with Structured Prediction for Weakly Supervised Audio Event DetectionInkyu Choi0Soo Hyun Bae1Nam Soo Kim2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and INMC, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, KoreaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering and INMC, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, KoreaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering and INMC, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, KoreaAudio event detection (AED) is a task of recognizing the types of audio events in an audio stream and estimating their temporal positions. AED is typically based on fully supervised approaches, requiring strong labels including both the presence and temporal position of each audio event. However, fully supervised datasets are not easily available due to the heavy cost of human annotation. Recently, weakly supervised approaches for AED have been proposed, utilizing large scale datasets with weak labels including only the occurrence of events in recordings. In this work, we introduce a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model called DSNet based on densely connected convolution networks (DenseNets) and squeeze-and-excitation networks (SENets) for weakly supervised training of AED. DSNet alleviates the vanishing-gradient problem and strengthens feature propagation and models interdependencies between channels. We also propose a structured prediction method for weakly supervised AED. We apply a recurrent neural network (RNN) based framework and a prediction smoothness cost function to consider long-term contextual information with reduced error propagation. In post-processing, conditional random fields (CRFs) are applied to take into account the dependency between segments and delineate the borders of audio events precisely. We evaluated our proposed models on the DCASE 2017 task 4 dataset and obtained state-of-the-art results on both audio tagging and event detection tasks.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/9/11/2302audio event detectionweakly supervised learningconvolutional neural networkstructured predictionconditional random field
spellingShingle Inkyu Choi
Soo Hyun Bae
Nam Soo Kim
Deep Convolutional Neural Network with Structured Prediction for Weakly Supervised Audio Event Detection
Applied Sciences
audio event detection
weakly supervised learning
convolutional neural network
structured prediction
conditional random field
title Deep Convolutional Neural Network with Structured Prediction for Weakly Supervised Audio Event Detection
title_full Deep Convolutional Neural Network with Structured Prediction for Weakly Supervised Audio Event Detection
title_fullStr Deep Convolutional Neural Network with Structured Prediction for Weakly Supervised Audio Event Detection
title_full_unstemmed Deep Convolutional Neural Network with Structured Prediction for Weakly Supervised Audio Event Detection
title_short Deep Convolutional Neural Network with Structured Prediction for Weakly Supervised Audio Event Detection
title_sort deep convolutional neural network with structured prediction for weakly supervised audio event detection
topic audio event detection
weakly supervised learning
convolutional neural network
structured prediction
conditional random field
url https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/9/11/2302
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