Unsupervised Discriminative Learning Of Sounds For Audio Event Classification
Sascha Hornauer, Ke Li, Stella Yu, Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan, Liu Ren
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Recent progress in network-based audio event classification has shown the benefit of pre-training models on visual data such as ImageNet. While this process allows knowledge transfer across different domains, training a model on large-scale visual datasets is time consuming. On several audio event classification benchmarks, we show a fast and effective alternative that pre-trains the model unsupervised, only on audio data and yet delivers on-par performance with ImageNet pre-training. Furthermore, we show that our discriminative audio learning can be used to transfer knowledge across audio datasets and optionally include ImageNet pre-training.
Chairs:
Isabel Trancoso