Abstract
The Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) consists of five audio classification and sound event detectiontasks: 1)Acousticsceneclassification,2)General-purposeaudio tagging of Freesound, 3) Bird audio detection, 4) Weakly-labeled semi-supervised sound event detection and 5) Multi-channel audio classification. In this paper, we create a cross-task baseline system for all five tasks based on a convlutional neural network (CNN): a “CNN Baseline” system. We implemented CNNs with 4 layers and 8 layers originating from AlexNet and VGG from computer vision. We investigated how the performance varies from task to task with the same configuration of neural networks. Experiments show that deeper CNN with 8 layers performs better than CNN with 4 layers on all tasks except Task 1. Using CNN with 8 layers, we achieve an accuracy of 0.680 on Task 1, an accuracy of 0.895 and a mean average precision (MAP) of 0.928 on Task 2, an accuracy of 0.751 andanareaunderthecurve(AUC)of0.854onTask3,asoundevent detectionF1scoreof20.8%onTask4,andanF1scoreof87.75%on Task 5. We released the Python source code of the baseline systems under the MIT license for further research.