Leveraging Reverberation and Visual Depth Cues for Sound Event Localization and Detection with Distance Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22271v1
• Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:28:43 GMT
• Title: Leveraging Reverberation and Visual Depth Cues for Sound Event Localization and Detection with Distance Estimation
• Authors: Davide Berghi, Philip J. B. Jackson,
• Abstract summary: This report describes our systems submitted for the DCASE2024 Task 3 challenge: Audio and Audiovisual Sound Event localization and Detection with Source Distance Estimation (Track B) Our main model is based on the audio-visual (AV) Conformer, which processes video and audio embeddings extracted with ResNet50 and with an audio encoder pre-trained on SELD, respectively. This model outperformed the audio-visual baseline of the development set of the STARSS23 dataset by a wide margin, halving its DOAE and improving the F1 by more than 3x.
• Score: 3.2472293599354596
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• Abstract: This report describes our systems submitted for the DCASE2024 Task 3 challenge: Audio and Audiovisual Sound Event Localization and Detection with Source Distance Estimation (Track B). Our main model is based on the audio-visual (AV) Conformer, which processes video and audio embeddings extracted with ResNet50 and with an audio encoder pre-trained on SELD, respectively. This model outperformed the audio-visual baseline of the development set of the STARSS23 dataset by a wide margin, halving its DOAE and improving the F1 by more than 3x. Our second system performs a temporal ensemble from the outputs of the AV-Conformer. We then extended the model with features for distance estimation, such as direct and reverberant signal components extracted from the omnidirectional audio channel, and depth maps extracted from the video frames. While the new system improved the RDE of our previous model by about 3 percentage points, it achieved a lower F1 score. This may be caused by sound classes that rarely appear in the training set and that the more complex system does not detect, as analysis can determine. To overcome this problem, our fourth and final system consists of an ensemble strategy combining the predictions of the other three. Many opportunities to refine the system and training strategy can be tested in future ablation experiments, and likely achieve incremental performance gains for this audio-visual task.

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