Acoustic Scene Classification

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 42 papers with code (132 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• The Receptive Field as a Regularizer in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Acoustic Scene Classification
  3 Jul 2019 3 repositories listed
  To this end, we analyse the receptive field (RF) of these CNNs and demonstrate the importance of the RF to the generalization capability of the models.
• Qwen-Audio: Advancing Universal Audio Understanding via Unified Large-Scale Audio-Language Models
  14 Nov 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 7 samples · 2 unverified · 7 pointer-only (licence)
  Recently, instruction-following audio-language models have received broad attention for audio interaction with humans.
• Efficient Training of Audio Transformers with Patchout
  11 Oct 2021 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified
  However, one of the main shortcomings of transformer models, compared to the well-established CNNs, is the computational complexity.
• SELD-TCN: Sound Event Localization & Detection via Temporal Convolutional Networks
  3 Mar 2020 2 repositories listed
  The understanding of the surrounding environment plays a critical role in autonomous robotic systems, such as self-driving cars.
• Receptive-field-regularized CNN variants for acoustic scene classification
  5 Sep 2019 2 repositories listed
  One side effect of restricting the RF of CNNs is that more frequency information is lost.
• Training neural audio classifiers with few data
  24 Oct 2018 2 repositories listed
  We investigate supervised learning strategies that improve the training of neural network audio classifiers on small annotated collections.
• A multi-device dataset for urban acoustic scene classification
  25 Jul 2018 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 2 samples · 1 unverified
  This paper introduces the acoustic scene classification task of DCASE 2018 Challenge and the TUT Urban Acoustic Scenes 2018 dataset provided for the task, and evaluates the performance of a baseline system in the task.
• A Simple Fusion of Deep and Shallow Learning for Acoustic Scene Classification
  19 Jun 2018 2 repositories listed
  In this paper, we propose a system that consists of a simple fusion of two methods of the aforementioned types: a deep learning approach where log-scaled mel-spectrograms are input to a convolutional neural network, and…
• Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification with Device Information in the DCASE 2025 Challenge
  3 May 2025 1 repository listed
  This paper presents the Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification with Device Information Task of the DCASE 2025 Challenge and its baseline system.
• Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification Using Parallel Attention-Convolution Network
  12 Jun 2024 1 repository listed
  This work is an improved system that we submitted to task 1 of DCASE2023 challenge.
• Data-Efficient Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification in the DCASE 2024 Challenge
  16 May 2024 1 repository listed
  This article describes the Data-Efficient Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification Task in the DCASE 2024 Challenge and the corresponding baseline system.
• Description on IEEE ICME 2024 Grand Challenge: Semi-supervised Acoustic Scene Classification under Domain Shift
  5 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  In addition, considering the abundance of unlabeled acoustic scene data in the real world, it is important to study the possible ways to utilize these unlabelled data.
• Audio Flamingo: A Novel Audio Language Model with Few-Shot Learning and Dialogue Abilities
  2 Feb 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  Augmenting large language models (LLMs) to understand audio -- including non-speech sounds and non-verbal speech -- is critically important for diverse real-world applications of LLMs.
• AudioLog: LLMs-Powered Long Audio Logging with Hybrid Token-Semantic Contrastive Learning
  21 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  This paper presents AudioLog, a large language models (LLMs)-powered audio logging system with hybrid token-semantic contrastive learning.
• Audio Event-Relational Graph Representation Learning for Acoustic Scene Classification
  5 Oct 2023 1 repository listed
  The results show the feasibility of recognizing diverse acoustic scenes based on the audio event-relational graph.
• Bringing the Discussion of Minima Sharpness to the Audio Domain: a Filter-Normalised Evaluation for Acoustic Scene Classification
  28 Sep 2023 1 repository listed
  The correlation between the sharpness of loss minima and generalisation in the context of deep neural networks has been subject to discussion for a long time.
• Domain Information Control at Inference Time for Acoustic Scene Classification
  13 Jun 2023 1 repository listed
  In the Acoustic Scene Classification task (ASC), domain shift is mainly caused by different recording devices.
• Device-Robust Acoustic Scene Classification via Impulse Response Augmentation
  12 May 2023 1 repository listed
  However, we also show that DIR augmentation and Freq-MixStyle are complementary, achieving a new state-of-the-art performance on signals recorded by devices unseen during training.
• Unsupervised Improvement of Audio-Text Cross-Modal Representations
  3 May 2023 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we study unsupervised approaches to improve the learning framework of such representations with unpaired text and audio.
• CochlScene: Acquisition of acoustic scene data using crowdsourcing
  4 Nov 2022 1 repository listed
  This paper describes a pipeline for collecting acoustic scene data by using crowdsourcing.
• Multi-dimensional Edge-based Audio Event Relational Graph Representation Learning for Acoustic Scene Classification
  27 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  Experiments on a polyphonic acoustic scene dataset show that the proposed ERGL achieves competitive performance on ASC by using only a limited number of embeddings of audio events without any data augmentations.
• Efficient Similarity-based Passive Filter Pruning for Compressing CNNs
  27 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  However, the computational complexity of computing the pairwise similarity matrix is high, particularly when a convolutional layer has many filters.
• A Passive Similarity based CNN Filter Pruning for Efficient Acoustic Scene Classification
  29 Mar 2022 1 repository listed
  We propose a passive filter pruning framework, where a few convolutional filters from the CNNs are eliminated to yield compressed CNNs.
• Acoustic scene classification using auditory datasets
  26 Dec 2021 1 repository listed
  The approach used not only challenges some of the fundamental mathematical techniques used so far in early experiments of the same trend but also introduces new scopes and new horizons for interesting results.
• Towards Audio Domain Adaptation for Acoustic Scene Classification using Disentanglement Learning
  26 Oct 2021 1 repository listed
  The deployment of machine listening algorithms in real-life applications is often impeded by a domain shift caused for instance by different microphone characteristics.
• A Variational Bayesian Approach to Learning Latent Variables for Acoustic Knowledge Transfer
  16 Oct 2021 1 repository listed
  We propose a variational Bayesian (VB) approach to learning distributions of latent variables in deep neural network (DNN) models for cross-domain knowledge transfer, to address acoustic mismatches between training and…
• Low-complexity acoustic scene classification for multi-device audio: analysis of DCASE 2021 Challenge systems
  28 May 2021 1 repository listed
  The most used techniques among the submissions were residual networks and weight quantization, with the top systems reaching over 70% accuracy, and log loss under 0.
• Receptive Field Regularization Techniques for Audio Classification and Tagging with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
  26 May 2021 1 repository listed
  As state-of-the-art CNN architectures-in computer vision and other domains-tend to go deeper in terms of number of layers, their RF size increases and therefore they degrade in performance in several audio…
• Spectrum Correction: Acoustic Scene Classification with Mismatched Recording Devices
  25 May 2021 1 repository listed
  This method works for both time and frequency domain representations of audio recordings.
• Low-Complexity Models for Acoustic Scene Classification Based on Receptive Field Regularization and Frequency Damping
  5 Nov 2020 1 repository listed
  Deep Neural Networks are known to be very demanding in terms of computing and memory requirements.

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