2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) Anomalous Sound Event Detection Based on WaveNet Tomoki Hayashi∗, Tatsuya Komatsuy, Reishi Kondoy, Tomoki Todaz, Kazuya Takeda∗ ∗Department of Information Science Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan 492–8411
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[email protected] Abstract—This paper proposes a new method of anomalous systems can complement video-based systems by covering sound event detection for use in public spaces. The proposed camera blind spots. Furthermore, a combination of sound- method utilizes WaveNet, a generative model based on a con- based and video-based systems is likely to result in more volutional neural network, to model in the time domain the various acoustic patterns which occur in public spaces. When intelligent monitoring systems. the model detects unknown acoustic patterns, they are identified The key technology of sound-based monitoring system as anomalous sound events. WaveNet has been used to precisely can be divided into two types; supervised and unsupervised model a waveform signal and to directly generate it using random approaches. Supervised approaches use manually labeled data, sampling in generation tasks, such as speech synthesis. On the and include acoustic scene classification (ASC) [6], [7] and other hand, our proposed method uses WaveNet as a predictor rather than a generator to detect waveform segments causing acoustic event detection (AED) [8]–[10] methods.