Sound Event Localization and Detection

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 35 papers with code (65 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.

• SALSA-Lite: A Fast and Effective Feature for Polyphonic Sound Event Localization and Detection with Microphone Arrays
  16 Nov 2021 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
  In this work, we introduce SALSA-Lite, a fast and effective feature for polyphonic SELD using microphone array inputs.
• Overview and Evaluation of Sound Event Localization and Detection in DCASE 2019
  6 Sep 2020 4 repositories listed
  A large-scale realistic dataset of spatialized sound events was generated for the challenge, to be used for training of learning-based approaches, and for evaluation of the submissions in an unlabeled subset.
• PSELDNets: Pre-trained Neural Networks on Large-scale Synthetic Datasets for Sound Event Localization and Detection
  10 Nov 2024 2 repositories listed
  Recently, deep neural networks trained on large-scale datasets have achieved remarkable success in the sound event classification (SEC) field, prompting an open question of whether these advancements can be extended to…
• Sound Event Localization and Detection for Real Spatial Sound Scenes: Event-Independent Network and Data Augmentation Chains
  5 Sep 2022 2 repositories listed
  Our system submitted to the DCASE 2022 Task 3 is based on our previous proposed Event-Independent Network V2 (EINV2) with a novel data augmentation method.
• STARSS22: A dataset of spatial recordings of real scenes with spatiotemporal annotations of sound events
  4 Jun 2022 2 repositories listed
  Additionally, the report presents the baseline system that accompanies the dataset in the challenge with emphasis on the differences with the baseline of the previous iterations; namely, introduction of the multi-ACCDOA…
• Multi-ACCDOA: Localizing and Detecting Overlapping Sounds from the Same Class with Auxiliary Duplicating Permutation Invariant Training
  14 Oct 2021 2 repositories listed
  The multi- ACCDOA format (a class- and track-wise output format) enables the model to solve the cases with overlaps from the same class.
• ACCDOA: Activity-Coupled Cartesian Direction of Arrival Representation for Sound Event Localization and Detection
  29 Oct 2020 2 repositories listed
  Conventional NN-based methods use two branches for a sound event detection (SED) target and a direction-of-arrival (DOA) target.
• A Dataset of Reverberant Spatial Sound Scenes with Moving Sources for Sound Event Localization and Detection
  2 Jun 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  This report presents the dataset and the evaluation setup of the Sound Event Localization & Detection (SELD) task for the DCASE 2020 Challenge.
• 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.
• Reverberation-based Features for Sound Event Localization and Detection with Distance Estimation
  11 Apr 2025 1 repository listed
  Only recently, SELD was extended to 3D by incorporating distance estimation, enabling the prediction of sound event positions in 3D space (3D SELD).
• MVANet: Multi-Stage Video Attention Network for Sound Event Localization and Detection with Source Distance Estimation
  21 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  We propose a novel output representation that combines the DOA with distance of sound sources by calculating the real Cartesian coordinates to address the newly introduced source distance estimation (SDE) task in the…
• Real-Time Sound Event Localization and Detection: Deployment Challenges on Edge Devices
  18 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  Sound event localization and detection (SELD) is critical for various real-world applications, including smart monitoring and Internet of Things (IoT) systems.
• Learning Multi-Target TDOA Features for Sound Event Localization and Detection
  30 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  Sound event localization and detection (SELD) systems using audio recordings from a microphone array rely on spatial cues for determining the location of sound events.
• MFF-EINV2: Multi-scale Feature Fusion across Spectral-Spatial-Temporal Domains for Sound Event Localization and Detection
  13 Jun 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 4 samples · 1 unverified
  This paper proposes a three-stage network structure named Multi-scale Feature Fusion (MFF) module to fully extract multi-scale features across spectral, spatial, and temporal domains.
• Enhanced Sound Event Localization and Detection in Real 360-degree audio-visual soundscapes
  29 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  This technical report details our work towards building an enhanced audio-visual sound event localization and detection (SELD) network.
• Spatial Scaper: A Library to Simulate and Augment Soundscapes for Sound Event Localization and Detection in Realistic Rooms
  19 Jan 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 11 of 12 samples · 1 unverified · 12 pointer-only (licence)
  Major advancements rely on simulated data with sound events in specific rooms and strong spatio-temporal labels.
• Selective-Memory Meta-Learning with Environment Representations for Sound Event Localization and Detection
  27 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  In addition, we introduce environment representations to characterize different acoustic settings, enhancing the adaptability of our attenuation approach to various environments.
• Fusion of Audio and Visual Embeddings for Sound Event Localization and Detection
  14 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  Sound event localization and detection (SELD) combines two subtasks: sound event detection (SED) and direction of arrival (DOA) estimation.
• w2v-SELD: A Sound Event Localization and Detection Framework for Self-Supervised Spatial Audio Pre-Training
  12 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  By applying this approach to SELD, we can leverage a substantial amount of unlabeled 3D audio data to learn robust representations of sound events and their locations.
• Leveraging Geometrical Acoustic Simulations of Spatial Room Impulse Responses for Improved Sound Event Detection and Localization
  6 Sep 2023 1 repository listed
  As deeper and more complex models are developed for the task of sound event localization and detection (SELD), the demand for annotated spatial audio data continues to increase.
• STARSS23: An Audio-Visual Dataset of Spatial Recordings of Real Scenes with Spatiotemporal Annotations of Sound Events
  15 Jun 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 5 of 11 samples · 6 unverified
  While direction of arrival (DOA) of sound events is generally estimated from multichannel audio data recorded in a microphone array, sound events usually derive from visually perceptible source objects, e.
• Perception Test: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Multimodal Video Models
  23 May 2023 1 repository listed
  We propose a novel multimodal video benchmark - the Perception Test - to evaluate the perception and reasoning skills of pre-trained multimodal models (e.
• AD-YOLO: You Look Only Once in Training Multiple Sound Event Localization and Detection
  28 Mar 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 8 samples · 7 unverified
  Hence, the format enables the model to handle the polyphony problem, regardless of the number of sound overlaps.
• A Synapse-Threshold Synergistic Learning Approach for Spiking Neural Networks
  10 Jun 2022 1 repository listed
  Most existing methods for training SNNs are based on the concept of synaptic plasticity; however, learning in the realistic brain also utilizes intrinsic non-synaptic mechanisms of neurons.
• Dual Quaternion Ambisonics Array for Six-Degree-of-Freedom Acoustic Representation
  4 Apr 2022 1 repository listed
  We show that our dual quaternion SELD model with temporal convolution blocks (DualQSELD-TCN) achieves better results with respect to real and quaternion-valued baselines thanks to our augmented representation of the…
• Filler Word Detection and Classification: A Dataset and Benchmark
  28 Mar 2022 1 repository listed
  In this work, we present a novel speech dataset, PodcastFillers, with 35K annotated filler words and 50K annotations of other sounds that commonly occur in podcasts such as breaths, laughter, and word repetitions.
• L3DAS22 Challenge: Learning 3D Audio Sources in a Real Office Environment
  21 Feb 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  The L3DAS22 Challenge is aimed at encouraging the development of machine learning strategies for 3D speech enhancement and 3D sound localization and detection in office-like environments.
• Echo-aware Adaptation of Sound Event Localization and Detection in Unknown Environments
  18 Feb 2022 1 repository listed
  Our goal is to develop a sound event localization and detection (SELD) system that works robustly in unknown environments.
• Wearable SELD dataset: Dataset for sound event localization and detection using wearable devices around head
  17 Feb 2022 1 repository listed
  Sound event localization and detection (SELD) is a combined task of identifying the sound event and its direction.
• Spatial mixup: Directional loudness modification as data augmentation for sound event localization and detection
  12 Oct 2021 1 repository listed
  Data augmentation methods have shown great importance in diverse supervised learning problems where labeled data is scarce or costly to obtain.

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