ETH Acoustic Event Dataset

sounds

General information

Label Value Description
Name ETH Acoustic Event Dataset Full dataset name
ID sounds/eth_aed Datalist id for external indexing
Abbreviation ETH-AED Official dataset abbreviation, e.g. one used in the original paper
Provider ETH
Year 2016 Dataset release year
Modalities Audio Data modalities included in the dataset
Collection name ETH Common name for all related datasets, used to group datasets coming from same source
Research domain Tagging Weak annotation Related domains, e.g., Scenes, Mobile devices, Audio-visual, Open set, Ambient noise, Unlabelled, Multiple sensors, SED, SELD, Tagging, FL, Strong annotation, Weak annotation, Unlabelled, Multi-annotator
License Creative Commons
Download Download (1.2GB)
Companion site Site Link to the companion site for the dataset
Citation [Takahashi2016] Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation for Acoustic Event Recognition

Audio

Label Value Description

Data

Data type Audio Possible values: Audio | Features
File format
File format type Constant Possible values: Constant | Variable
File format wav Possible value: wav | aiff | flac | mp3 | aac | ogg
Lossy compression No is audio compressed in a lossy manner
Bit rate 16 Bit depth of audio, possible values: 8 | 16 | 24 | 32
Sampling rate (kHz) 16 kHz Sampling rate in kHz, possible values: 8 | 16 | 22.05 | 32 | 44.1 | 48
Channels
Material
Source Freesound Possible values: Original | Youtube | Freesound | Online | Crowdsourced | [Dataset name]

Content

Recording

Setup Unknown Possible values: Near-field | Far-field | Mixed | Uncontrolled | Unknown

Files

Count 5223 files Total number of files
Total duration (minutes) 768.4 min Total duration of the dataset in minutes

Meta

Label Value Description
Types Tag List of meta data types provided for the data, possible values: Event, Tag, Scene, Caption, Geolocation, Spatial location, Annotator, Timestamp, Presence, Proximity, etc.

Scene

Event

Classes 28 Number of event classes
Classes False Possible values: True | False | Almost
Classes
  • acoustic guitar
  • airplane
  • applause
  • bird
  • car
  • cat
  • child
  • church bell
  • crowd
  • dog barking
  • engine
  • fireworks
  • footstpes
  • glass breaking
  • hammer
  • helicopter
  • knock
  • laughter
  • mouse click
  • ocean surf
  • rustle
  • scream
  • speech
  • squeak
  • tone
  • violin
  • water tap
  • whistle
Annotation
Type Weak Possible values: Strong | Weak | Location | None
Source Experts Possible values: Experts | Crowdsourced | Synthetic | Metadata | Automatic
Annotations per item 1 How many annotations there are available per item (possible multi-annotator setup)
Labelled amount (%) 100 % Percentage of all data, amount of data which is labelled
Strong annotations amount (%) 0 % Percentage of all data, amount of data which has strong annotations
Overlapping event instances No
Labeling
Hierarchical No
Instance
Count 5223 Count of all event instances in the dataset
Average instances per class 186.5 Average per class instance count

Cross-validation setup

Label Value Description
Provided Yes
Folds 1
Sets Train Test Set types provided in the split, possible values: Train | Test | Val | Dev | Eval

Baseline

Label Value Description
Download Download Link to baseline system source code
Citation [Takahashi2016] Paper to cite for the baseline