Deciphering GunType Hierarchy through Acoustic Analysis of Gunshot Recordings

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20609v1
• Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:00:21 GMT
• Title: Deciphering GunType Hierarchy through Acoustic Analysis of Gunshot Recordings
• Authors: Ankit Shah, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj, Alexander Hauptmann,
• Abstract summary: Gun violence and mass shootings represent a significant threat to public safety.<n>Current commercial gunshot detection systems, while effective, often come with prohibitive costs.<n>This research explores a cost-effective alternative by leveraging acoustic analysis of gunshot recordings.
• Score: 72.55205022155394
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: The escalating rates of gun-related violence and mass shootings represent a significant threat to public safety. Timely and accurate information for law enforcement agencies is crucial in mitigating these incidents. Current commercial gunshot detection systems, while effective, often come with prohibitive costs. This research explores a cost-effective alternative by leveraging acoustic analysis of gunshot recordings, potentially obtainable from ubiquitous devices like cell phones, to not only detect gunshots but also classify the type of firearm used. This paper details a study on deciphering gun type hierarchies using a curated dataset of 3459 recordings. We investigate the fundamental acoustic characteristics of gunshots, including muzzle blasts and shockwaves, which vary based on firearm type, ammunition, and shooting direction. We propose and evaluate machine learning frameworks, including Support Vector Machines (SVMs) as a baseline and a more advanced Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for joint gunshot detection and gun type classification. Results indicate that our deep learning approach achieves a mean average precision (mAP) of 0.58 on clean labeled data, outperforming the SVM baseline (mAP 0.39). Challenges related to data quality, environmental noise, and the generalization capabilities when using noisy web-sourced data (mAP 0.35) are also discussed. The long-term vision is to develop a highly accurate, real-time system deployable on common recording devices, significantly reducing detection costs and providing critical intelligence to first responders.

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