IP Library Granted Patent US 10,540,988
Granted Patent B2
US 10,540,988 · App. 16/196,356 · Granted Jan 21, 2020

Method and apparatus for sound event detection robust to frequency change

Inventor: Woo-taek Lim (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
G10L21/14G10L21/12G10L25/30
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Patent No.
US 10,540,988
App. No.
16/196,356
Granted
Jan 21, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a sound event detecting method including receiving an audio signal, transforming the audio signal into a two-dimensional (2D) signal, extracting a feature map by training a convolutional neural network (CNN) using the 2D signal, pooling the feature map based on a frequency, and determining whether a sound event occurs with respect to each of at least one time interval based on a result of the pooling.

Claims (30)

1. A sound event detecting method performed by a sound event detecting apparatus, the sound event detecting method comprising:

receiving an audio signal;

transforming the audio signal into a two-dimensional (2D) time-frequency signal;

extracting a feature map from the 2D signal using a trained convolutional neural network (CNN);

pooling the feature map based on a frequency; and

determining whether a sound event occurs with respect to each of one or more time intervals based on a result of the pooling.

2. The sound event detecting method of claim 1 , wherein the determining comprises:

calculating a probability value of a sound event occurring with respect to each of the one or more time intervals based on the result of the pooling; and

determining whether a sound event occurs with respect to each of the one or more time intervals based on the probability value.

3. The sound event detecting method of claim 2 , wherein the determining of whether a sound event occurs with respect to each of the one or more time intervals based on the probability value comprises determining that a sound event occurs at a time interval if a probability value corresponding to the time interval is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.

4. The sound event detecting method of claim 1 , further comprising:

classifying a sound event occurring at each time interval based on predefined sound event information.

5. The sound event detecting method of claim 1 , wherein the audio signal is transformed into the 2D signal using one of fast Fourier transform (FFT), constant Q transform (CQT), and Wavelet.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the method of claim 1 .

7. A sound event detecting apparatus, comprising:

a memory configured to store a control program;

one or more processors configured to operate based on the control program; and

a receiver configured to receive an audio signal from an outside,

wherein the control program is configured to perform:

receiving an audio signal from an outside,

transforming the audio signal into a two-dimensional (2D) time-frequency signal,

extracting a feature map from the 2D signal using a trained neural network (CNN),

pooling the feature map based on a frequency, and

determining whether a sound event occurs with respect to each of one or more time intervals based on a result of the pooling.

8. The sound event detecting apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the determining comprises:

calculating a probability value of a sound event occurring with respect to each of the one or more time intervals based on the result of the pooling; and

determining whether a sound event occurs with respect to each of the one or more time intervals based on the probability value.

9. The sound event detecting apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the determining of whether a sound event occurs with respect to each of the one or more time intervals based on the probability value comprises determining that a sound event occurs at a time interval if a probability value corresponding to the time interval is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.

10. The sound event detecting apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the control program is further configured to perform classifying a sound event occurring at each time, interval based on predefined sound event information.

11. The sound event detecting apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the audio signal is transformed into the 2D signal using one of fast Fourier transform (FFT), constant transform (CQT), and Wavelet.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 20, 2018
From: LIM, WOO-TAEK
To: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Reel/Frame 047553/0985 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2018-0030329 · Mar 15, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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