RWCP Sound Scene Database

sounds

General information

Label Value Description
Name RWCP Sound Scene Database Full dataset name
ID sounds/rwsp Datalist id for external indexing
Abbreviation RWCP Official dataset abbreviation, e.g. one used in the original paper
Provider NII-SRC
Year 2000 Dataset release year
Modalities Audio Data modalities included in the dataset
Collection name RWSP 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 R&D only
Download Download (1.4GB)
Companion site Site Link to the companion site for the dataset
Citation [Nakamura2000] Acoustical Sound Database in Real Environments for Sound Scene Understanding and Hands-Free Speech 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 raw 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) 48 kHz Sampling rate in kHz, possible values: 8 | 16 | 22.05 | 32 | 44.1 | 48
Channels
Setup Array Possible values: Mono | Stereo | Binaural | Ambisonic | Array | Multi-Channel | Variable
Number of channels 16
Material
Source Original Possible values: Original | Youtube | Freesound | Online | Crowdsourced | [Dataset name]

Content

Content type Isolated Possible values: Freefield | Synthetic | Isolated
Scene Constant Is the scene class constant for single recording, possible values: Constant | Variable
Event / Spatial location Unknown Possible values: Constant | Moving | Unknown

Recording

Setup Near-field Possible values: Near-field | Far-field | Mixed | Uncontrolled | Unknown
Setup count 1 Amount of different recording setups (microphone and recording device) used
Spot type Fixed Possible values: Fixed | Moving | Unknown

Files

Count 9722 files Total number of files

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.

Event

Classes 14 Number of event classes
Classes False Possible values: True | False | Almost
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 9722 Count of all event instances in the dataset
Average instances per class 694.428571429 Average per class instance count

Cross-validation setup

Label Value Description
Provided No