Automatic Environmental Sound Recognition (AESR) Using Convolutional Neural Network

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Md. Rayhan Ahmed 1,* Towhidul Islam Robin 1 Ashfaq Ali Shafin 1

1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Stamford University Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2020.05.04

Received: 25 Mar. 2020 / Revised: 12 Apr. 2020 / Accepted: 8 May 2020 / Published: 8 Oct. 2020

Index Terms

AESR, CNN, Log-Mel Spectrogram, MFCC, Adam, RAdam, Relu, Image, Classification

Abstract

Automatic Environmental Sound Recognition (AESR) is an essential topic in modern research in the field of pattern recognition. We can convert a short audio file of a sound event into a spectrogram image and feed that image to the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for processing. Features generated from that image are used for the classification of various environmental sound events such as sea waves, fire cracking, dog barking, lightning, raining, and many more. We have used the log-mel spectrogram auditory feature for training our six-layer stack CNN model. We evaluated the accuracy of our model for classifying the environmental sounds in three publicly available datasets and achieved an accuracy of 92.9% in the urbansound8k dataset, 91.7% accuracy in the ESC-10 dataset, and 65.8% accuracy in the ESC-50 dataset. These results show remarkable improvement in precise environmental sound recognition using only stack CNN compared to multiple previous works, and also show the efficiency of the log-mel spectrogram feature in sound recognition compared to Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), Wavelet Transformation, and raw waveform. We have also experimented with the newly published Rectified Adam (RAdam) as the optimizer. Our study also shows a comparative analysis between the Adaptive Learning Rate Optimizer (Adam) and RAdam optimizer used in training the model to correctly classifying the environmental sounds from image recognition architecture.

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Md. Rayhan Ahmed, Towhidul Islam Robin, Ashfaq Ali Shafin, " Automatic Environmental Sound Recognition (AESR) Using Convolutional Neural Network", International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science(IJMECS), Vol.12, No.5, pp. 41-54, 2020.DOI: 10.5815/ijmecs.2020.05.04

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