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Acoustic event detection in real life recordings

@article{Mesaros2010AcousticED,
  title={Acoustic event detection in real life recordings},
  author={Annamaria Mesaros and Toni Heittola and Antti J. Eronen and Tuomas Virtanen},
  journal={2010 18th European Signal Processing Conference},
  year={2010},
  pages={1267-1271}
}
This paper presents a system for acoustic event detection in recordings from real life environments. The events are modeled using a network of hidden Markov models; their size and topology is chosen based on a study of isolated events recognition. We also studied the effect of ambient background noise on event classification performance. On real life recordings, we tested recognition of isolated sound events and event detection. For event detection, the system performs recognition and temporal… 
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