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CT-SAT: Contextual Transformer for Sequential Audio Tagging
Yuanbo Hou, Zhaoyi Liu, Bo Kang, Yun Wang, Dick Botteldooren
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Sequential audio event tagging can provide not only the type information of audio events, but also the order information between events and the number of events that occur in an audio clip. Most previous works on audio event sequence analysis rely on connectionist temporal classification (CTC). However, CTC's conditional independence assumption prevents it from effectively learning correlations between diverse audio events. This paper first attempts to introduce Transformer into sequential audio tagging, since Transformers perform well in sequence-related tasks. To better utilize contextual information of audio event sequences, we draw on the idea of bidirectional recurrent neural networks, and propose a contextual Transformer (cTransformer) with a bidirectional decoder that could exploit the forward and backward information of event sequences. Experiments on the real-life polyphonic audio dataset show that, compared to CTC-based methods, the cTransformer can effectively combine the fine-grained acoustic representations from the encoder and coarse-grained audio event cues to exploit contextual information to successfully recognize and predict audio event sequences.
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