Title
Multi-Channel Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Overlapped Acoustic Event Detection.
Abstract
In this paper, we propose two multi-channel extensions of non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) for acoustic event detection. The first method performs decision fusion on the activation matrices produced from independent single-channel sparse-NMF solutions. The second method is a novel extension of single-channel NMF, incorporating in its objective function a multi-channel reconstruction error and a multi-channel class sparsity term on the activation matrices produced. This class sparsity constraint is used to guarantee that the NMF solutions at a given time will contain only a few classes activated across all channels. This indirectly forces the channels to seek solutions on which they agree, thus increasing robustness. We evaluate the proposed methods on a multi-channel database of overlapping acoustic events and various background noises collected inside a smart office space. Both proposed methods outperform the single-channel baseline, with the second approach achieving a 15.4% relative error reduction in terms of F-score.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.23919/EUSIPCO.2018.8553520
European Signal Processing Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
Acoustic event detection,multi-channel fusion,non-negative matrix factorization
Signal processing,Computer science,Matrix (mathematics),Matrix decomposition,Algorithm,Communication channel,Robustness (computer science),Non-negative matrix factorization,Sparse matrix,Approximation error
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2076-1465
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Panagiotis Giannoulis130.77
Gerasimos Potamianos21113113.80
Petros Maragos33733591.97