Multiscale Audio Spectrogram Transformer for Efficient Audio Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10757v1
• Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 20:21:29 GMT
• Title: Multiscale Audio Spectrogram Transformer for Efficient Audio Classification
• Authors: Wentao Zhu, Mohamed Omar
• Abstract summary: We develop a multiscale audio spectrogram Transformer (MAST) that employs hierarchical representation learning for efficient audio classification. Specifically, MAST employs one-dimensional (and two-dimensional) pooling operators along the time (and frequency domains) in different stages, and progressively reduces the number of tokens and increases the feature dimensions.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Audio event has a hierarchical architecture in both time and frequency and can be grouped together to construct more abstract semantic audio classes. In this work, we develop a multiscale audio spectrogram Transformer (MAST) that employs hierarchical representation learning for efficient audio classification. Specifically, MAST employs one-dimensional (and two-dimensional) pooling operators along the time (and frequency domains) in different stages, and progressively reduces the number of tokens and increases the feature dimensions. MAST significantly outperforms AST~\cite{gong2021ast} by 22.2\%, 4.4\% and 4.7\% on Kinetics-Sounds, Epic-Kitchens-100 and VGGSound in terms of the top-1 accuracy without external training data. On the downloaded AudioSet dataset, which has over 20\% missing audios, MAST also achieves slightly better accuracy than AST. In addition, MAST is 5x more efficient in terms of multiply-accumulates (MACs) with 42\% reduction in the number of parameters compared to AST. Through clustering metrics and visualizations, we demonstrate that the proposed MAST can learn semantically more separable feature representations from audio signals.

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