Title
Learning to Separate: Soundscape Classification using Foreground and Background
Abstract
This paper applies the framework of robust principal components analysis (RPCA) to the problem of classifying acoustic soundscapes. RPCA provides a mechanism to decompose a data matrix as the sum of a low-rank matrix and a sparse matrix. In the context of data representing acoustic soundscapes, the low-rank matrix represents the slow-changing background sound events, and the sparse matrix represents the occasional foreground sound events. The data representations are obtained as feature embeddings from pretrained deep convolutional networks. The paper investigates the effectiveness of classifying acoustic soundscapes by using the foreground or background information alone. Further, by using the subspace projection technique of nuisance attribute projection (NAP), the undesired components from the foreground or background are removed. Our results indicate that RPCA and subspace projections in-deed provide benefits in improving discrimination for classifying acoustic soundscapes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.23919/Eusipco47968.2020.9287875
2020 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Acoustic scene classification,robust PCA,sub-space projections
Conference
2219-5491
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-5001-7
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dhanunjaya Varma Devalraju100.34
Padmanabhan Rajan2227.63
A. D. Dileep3157.72