The impact of non-target events in synthetic soundscapes for sound event detection

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Main Authors: Ronchini, Francesca, Serizel, Romain, Turpault, Nicolas, Cornell, Samuele
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author Ronchini, Francesca
Serizel, Romain
Turpault, Nicolas
Cornell, Samuele
author_facet Ronchini, Francesca
Serizel, Romain
Turpault, Nicolas
Cornell, Samuele
contents Detection and Classification Acoustic Scene and Events Challenge 2021 Task 4 uses a heterogeneous dataset that includes both recorded and synthetic soundscapes. Until recently only target sound events were considered when synthesizing the soundscapes. However, recorded soundscapes often contain a substantial amount of non-target events that may affect the performance. In this paper, we focus on the impact of these non-target events in the synthetic soundscapes. Firstly, we investigate to what extent using non-target events alternatively during the training or validation phase (or none of them) helps the system to correctly detect target events. Secondly, we analyze to what extend adjusting the signal-to-noise ratio between target and non-target events at training improves the sound event detection performance. The results show that using both target and non-target events for only one of the phases (validation or training) helps the system to properly detect sound events, outperforming the baseline (which uses non-target events in both phases). The paper also reports the results of a preliminary study on evaluating the system on clips that contain only non-target events. This opens questions for future work on non-target subset and acoustic similarity between target and non-target events which might confuse the system.
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spellingShingle The impact of non-target events in synthetic soundscapes for sound event detection
Ronchini, Francesca
Serizel, Romain
Turpault, Nicolas
Cornell, Samuele
Audio and Speech Processing
Machine Learning
Sound
Detection and Classification Acoustic Scene and Events Challenge 2021 Task 4 uses a heterogeneous dataset that includes both recorded and synthetic soundscapes. Until recently only target sound events were considered when synthesizing the soundscapes. However, recorded soundscapes often contain a substantial amount of non-target events that may affect the performance. In this paper, we focus on the impact of these non-target events in the synthetic soundscapes. Firstly, we investigate to what extent using non-target events alternatively during the training or validation phase (or none of them) helps the system to correctly detect target events. Secondly, we analyze to what extend adjusting the signal-to-noise ratio between target and non-target events at training improves the sound event detection performance. The results show that using both target and non-target events for only one of the phases (validation or training) helps the system to properly detect sound events, outperforming the baseline (which uses non-target events in both phases). The paper also reports the results of a preliminary study on evaluating the system on clips that contain only non-target events. This opens questions for future work on non-target subset and acoustic similarity between target and non-target events which might confuse the system.
title The impact of non-target events in synthetic soundscapes for sound event detection
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Machine Learning
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.14061