Attention mechanism combined with residual recurrent neural network for sound event detection and localization

Abstract In the task of sound event detection and localization (SEDL) in a complex environment, the acoustic signals of different events usually have nonlinear superposition, so the detection and localization effect is not good. Given this, this paper is based on the Residual-spatially and channel Squeeze-Excitation (Res-scSE) model. Combined with Multiple-scale Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (M-CRNN), the Res-scSE-CRNN model is proposed. Firstly, to solve the problem of insufficient extraction of time-frequency feature in single-size convolution kernel, multi-scale feature fusion is carried out by using the feature hierarchy of the convolutional neural network to improve the accuracy of detection. Secondly, aiming at the problem of overlapping audio event localization accuracy is not high, with Res-scSE to replace common convolution module and add residual structure to strengthen the feature extraction, and combining with an attention mechanism to enhance neural network channels and spatial relationships, to improve the network to extract the characteristics of directivity, achieve the goal of the overlapped audio localization. In this paper, experiments are carried out in the open dataset DCASE2019, and evaluation indicators are used to analyze the effectiveness of the proposed model and baseline model in the detection and localization of audio events. The results show that compared with the M-CRNN model, the detection error rate of Res-scSE-CRNN model is reduced 4%, the F1-Score is increased 3.4%, the localization error is reduced by 22.8°, and the frame recall rate is increased 3%.