Learning How to Listen: A Temporal-Frequential Attention Model for Sound Event Detection
This addresses sound event detection for audio processing applications, but it is incremental as it builds on existing attention mechanisms.
The paper tackled sound event detection by proposing a temporal-frequential attention model that learns when and where to listen, achieving competitive performance on the DCASE 2017 Challenge task 2.
In this paper, we propose a temporal-frequential attention model for sound event detection (SED). Our network learns how to listen with two attention models: a temporal attention model and a frequential attention model. Proposed system learns when to listen using the temporal attention model while it learns where to listen on the frequency axis using the frequential attention model. With these two models, we attempt to make our system pay more attention to important frames or segments and important frequency components for sound event detection. Our proposed method is demonstrated on the task 2 of Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2017 Challenge and achieves competitive performance.