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A novel approach for automatic acoustic novelty detection using a denoising autoencoder with bidirectional LSTM neural networks

6 Aug 20152015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015 8archive 2025-07-28

Erik Marchi ; Fabio Vesperini ; Florian Eyben ; Stefano Squartini ; Björn Schuller

Acoustic novelty detection aims at identifying abnormal/novel acoustic signals which differ from the reference/normal data that the system was trained with. In this paper we present a novel unsupervised approach based on a denoising autoencoder. In our approach auditory spectral features are processed by a denoising autoencoder with bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory recurrent neural networks. We use the reconstruction error between the input and the output of the autoencoder as activation signal to detect novel events. The autoencoder is trained on a public database which contains recordings of typical in-home situations such as talking, watching television, playing and eating. The evaluation was performed on more than 260 different abnormal events. We compare results with state-of-the-art methods and we conclude that our novel approach significantly outperforms existing methods by achieving up to 93.4% F-Measure.

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