Sound Event Detection: A Tutorial
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The goal of automatic sound event detection (SED) methods is to recognize what is happening in an audio signal and when it is happening. In practice, the goal is to recognize at what temporal instances different sounds are active within an audio signal. This paper gives a tutorial presentation of sound event detection, including its definition, signal processing and machine learning approaches, evaluation, and future perspectives.
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- 2025SynSonic: Augmenting Sound Event Detection through Text-to-Audio Diffusion ControlNet and Effective Sample Filtering23 Sep 2025
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- 2025When Audio and Text Disagree: Revealing Text Bias in Large Audio-Language Models21 Aug 2025
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- 2025Real-Time Emergency Vehicle Siren Detection with Efficient CNNs on Embedded Hardware2 Jul 2025
- 2025ZeroSep: Separate Anything in Audio with Zero Training29 May 2025
- 2025A multi-head deep fusion model for recognition of cattle foraging events using sound and movement signals15 May 2025
- 2025Recognizing Ornaments in Vocal Indian Art Music with Active Annotation7 May 2025
- 2025Formula-Supervised Sound Event Detection: Pre-Training Without Real Data6 Apr 2025
- 2025Aggregation Strategies for Efficient Annotation of Bioacoustic Sound Events Using Active Learning4 Mar 2025
- 2025LHGNN: Local-Higher Order Graph Neural Networks For Audio Classification and Tagging7 Jan 2025
- 2024On-device Anomaly Detection in Conveyor Belt Operations16 Nov 2024
- 2024Prototype based Masked Audio Model for Self-Supervised Learning of Sound Event Detection26 Sep 2024
- 2024Language-based Audio Moment Retrieval24 Sep 2024
- 2024What Are They Doing? Joint Audio-Speech Co-Reasoning22 Sep 2024
- 2024The Sounds of Home: A Speech-Removed Residential Audio Dataset for Sound Event Detection17 Sep 2024
- 2024MTDA-HSED: Mutual-Assistance Tuning and Dual-Branch Aggregating for Heterogeneous Sound Event Detection10 Sep 2024
- 2024FunAudioLLM: Voice Understanding and Generation Foundation Models for Natural Interaction Between Humans and LLMs4 Jul 2024
- 2024Automated Bioacoustic Monitoring for South African Bird Species on Unlabeled Data19 Jun 2024
- 2024A Data-Centric Framework for Machine Listening Projects: Addressing Large-Scale Data Acquisition and Labeling through Active Learning28 May 2024
- 2024Sound event localization and classification using WASN in Outdoor Environment29 Mar 2024
- 2024Dual Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Sound Event Detection5 Feb 2024
- 2023DPM-TSE: A Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Target Sound Extraction6 Oct 2023
- 2023Object-Size-Driven Design of Convolutional Neural Networks: Virtual Axle Detection based on Raw Data4 Sep 2023
- 2023DiffSED: Sound Event Detection with Denoising Diffusion14 Aug 2023
- 2023SNeL: A Structured Neuro-Symbolic Language for Entity-Based Multimodal Scene Understanding9 Jun 2023
- 2023Multi-Scale Attention for Audio Question Answering29 May 2023
- 2023WavCaps: A ChatGPT-Assisted Weakly-Labelled Audio Captioning Dataset for Audio-Language Multimodal Research30 Mar 2023
- 2022Balanced Deep CCA for Bird Vocalization Detection17 Nov 2022
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- 2022M^4I: Multi-modal Models Membership Inference15 Sep 2022
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- 2022Automated Audio Captioning: An Overview of Recent Progress and New Challenges12 May 2022
- 2022Sound-Guided Semantic Video Generation20 Apr 2022
- 2022HTS-AT: A Hierarchical Token-Semantic Audio Transformer for Sound Classification and Detection2 Feb 2022
- 2021Sound-Guided Semantic Image Manipulation30 Nov 2021
- 2021Evaluating robustness of You Only Hear Once(YOHO) Algorithm on noisy audios in the VOICe Dataset1 Nov 2021
- 2021PHNNs: Lightweight Neural Networks via Parameterized Hypercomplex Convolutions8 Oct 2021
- 2021Audiomer: A Convolutional Transformer For Keyword Spotting21 Sep 2021
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- 2023DiffSED: Sound Event Detection with Denoising Diffusioncited by 4
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- 2025SynSonic: Augmenting Sound Event Detection through Text-to-Audio Diffusion ControlNet and Effective Sample Filteringcited by 1
- 2025SynSonic: Augmenting Sound Event Detection through Text-to-Audio Diffusion ControlNet and Effective Sample Filtering23 Sep 2025
- 2025ZeroSep: Separate Anything in Audio with Zero Training29 May 2025
- 2023DPM-TSE: A Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Target Sound Extraction6 Oct 2023
- 2023DiffSED: Sound Event Detection with Denoising Diffusion14 Aug 2023
- 2024What Are They Doing? Joint Audio-Speech Co-Reasoningcited by 4
- 2024What Are They Doing? Joint Audio-Speech Co-Reasoning22 Sep 2024
- 2022M^4I: Multi-modal Models Membership Inferencecited by 34
- 2022M^4I: Multi-modal Models Membership Inference15 Sep 2022
- 2023WavCaps: A ChatGPT-Assisted Weakly-Labelled Audio Captioning Dataset for Audio-Language Multimodal Researchcited by 267
- 2022HTS-AT: A Hierarchical Token-Semantic Audio Transformer for Sound Classification and Detectioncited by 176
- 2024FunAudioLLM: Voice Understanding and Generation Foundation Models for Natural Interaction Between Humans and LLMscited by 122
- 2021Sound-Guided Semantic Image Manipulationcited by 35
- 2022Sound-Guided Semantic Video Generationcited by 35
- 2021PHNNs: Lightweight Neural Networks via Parameterized Hypercomplex Convolutionscited by 26
- 2022Automated Audio Captioning: An Overview of Recent Progress and New Challengescited by 23
- 2023Multi-Scale Attention for Audio Question Answeringcited by 13
- 2025When Audio and Text Disagree: Revealing Text Bias in Large Audio-Language Modelscited by 13
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- 2026Exploring Feature Extraction Technique Parameters for Acoustic Gunshot Classification17 Jun 2026
- 2026Towards Fine-grained Temporal Perception: Post-Training Large Audio-Language Models with Audio-Side Time Prompt15 Apr 2026
- 2026Spectrogram features for audio and speech analysis16 Mar 2026
- 2026Geo-ATBench: A Benchmark for Geospatial Audio Tagging with Geospatial Semantic Context11 Mar 2026
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- 2025Pushing the Frontier of Audiovisual Perception with Large-Scale Multimodal Correspondence Learning22 Dec 2025
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