Multi-label Zero-Shot Audio Classification with Temporal Attention

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Main Authors: Dogan, Duygu, Xie, Huang, Heittola, Toni, Virtanen, Tuomas
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Published: 2024
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author Dogan, Duygu
Xie, Huang
Heittola, Toni
Virtanen, Tuomas
author_facet Dogan, Duygu
Xie, Huang
Heittola, Toni
Virtanen, Tuomas
contents Zero-shot learning models are capable of classifying new classes by transferring knowledge from the seen classes using auxiliary information. While most of the existing zero-shot learning methods focused on single-label classification tasks, the present study introduces a method to perform multi-label zero-shot audio classification. To address the challenge of classifying multi-label sounds while generalizing to unseen classes, we adapt temporal attention. The temporal attention mechanism assigns importance weights to different audio segments based on their acoustic and semantic compatibility, thus enabling the model to capture the varying dominance of different sound classes within an audio sample by focusing on the segments most relevant for each class. This leads to more accurate multi-label zero-shot classification than methods employing temporally aggregated acoustic features without weighting, which treat all audio segments equally. We evaluate our approach on a subset of AudioSet against a zero-shot model using uniformly aggregated acoustic features, a zero-rule baseline, and the proposed method in the supervised scenario. Our results show that temporal attention enhances the zero-shot audio classification performance in multi-label scenario.
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spellingShingle Multi-label Zero-Shot Audio Classification with Temporal Attention
Dogan, Duygu
Xie, Huang
Heittola, Toni
Virtanen, Tuomas
Sound
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
Zero-shot learning models are capable of classifying new classes by transferring knowledge from the seen classes using auxiliary information. While most of the existing zero-shot learning methods focused on single-label classification tasks, the present study introduces a method to perform multi-label zero-shot audio classification. To address the challenge of classifying multi-label sounds while generalizing to unseen classes, we adapt temporal attention. The temporal attention mechanism assigns importance weights to different audio segments based on their acoustic and semantic compatibility, thus enabling the model to capture the varying dominance of different sound classes within an audio sample by focusing on the segments most relevant for each class. This leads to more accurate multi-label zero-shot classification than methods employing temporally aggregated acoustic features without weighting, which treat all audio segments equally. We evaluate our approach on a subset of AudioSet against a zero-shot model using uniformly aggregated acoustic features, a zero-rule baseline, and the proposed method in the supervised scenario. Our results show that temporal attention enhances the zero-shot audio classification performance in multi-label scenario.
title Multi-label Zero-Shot Audio Classification with Temporal Attention
topic Sound
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00408