Multilabel Acoustic Event Classification Using Real-World Urban Data and Physical Redundancy of Sensors

Ester Vidaña-Vila, Joan Navarro, Dan Stowell, Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès

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    Abstract

    Many people living in urban environments nowadays are overexposed to noise, which results in adverse effects on their health. Thus, urban sound monitoring has emerged as a powerful tool that might enable public administrations to automatically identify and quantify noise pollution. Therefore, identifying multiple and simultaneous acoustic sources in these environments in a reliable and cost-effective way has emerged as a hot research topic. The purpose of this paper is to propose a two-stage classifier able to identify, in real time, a set of up to 21 urban acoustic events that may occur simultaneously (i.e., multilabel), taking advantage of physical redundancy in acoustic sensors from a wireless acoustic sensors network. The first stage of the proposed system consists of a multilabel deep neural network that makes a classification for each 4-s window. The second stage intelligently aggregates the classification results from the first stage of four neighboring nodes to determine the final classification result. Conducted experiments with real-world data and up to three different computing devices show that the system is able to provide classification results in less than 1 s and that it has good performance when classifying the most common events from the dataset. The results of this research may help civic organisations to obtain actionable noise monitoring information from automatic systems.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number7470
    Number of pages22
    JournalSensors
    Volume21
    Issue number22
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 10 Nov 2021

    Keywords

    • Acoustic event classification
    • Deep neural networks
    • Distributed computing
    • Multilabel classification
    • Physical redundancy
    • Urban sound monitoring

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