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Sound Event Detection: A tutorial

Annamaria Mesaros, Toni Heittola, Tuomas Virtanen, Mark D. Plumbley

2021IEEE Signal Processing Magazine252 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Imagine standing on a street corner in the city. With your eyes closed you can hear and recognize a succession of sounds: cars passing by, people speaking, their footsteps when they walk by, and the continuous falling of rain. The recognition of all these sounds and interpretation of the perceived scene as a city street soundscape comes naturally to humans. It is, however, the result of years of "training": encountering and learning associations among the vast varieties of sounds in everyday life, the sources producing these sounds, and the names given to them.

Topics & Concepts

SoundscapeSound (geography)Event (particle physics)Falling (accident)Interpretation (philosophy)Computer scienceEveryday lifeSpeech recognitionAcousticsPsychologyPsychiatryPhysicsLawProgramming languageQuantum mechanicsPolitical scienceMusic and Audio ProcessingSpeech and Audio ProcessingMusic Technology and Sound Studies