SONYC Urban Sound Tagging

sounds

General information

Label Value Description
Name SONYC Urban Sound Tagging Full dataset name
ID sounds/sonyc Datalist id for external indexing
Abbreviation SONYC-UST Official dataset abbreviation, e.g. one used in the original paper
Provider NYU
Year 2020 Dataset release year
Modalities Audio Data modalities included in the dataset
Collection name SONYC Common name for all related datasets, used to group datasets coming from same source
Research domain Tagging Weak annotation Urban 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, CC BY 4.0
Download Download (4.45GB)
Citation [Bello2019] Sonyc: a system for monitoring, analyzing, and mitigating urban noise pollution.

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) 48 kHz Sampling rate in kHz, possible values: 8 | 16 | 22.05 | 32 | 44.1 | 48
Channels
Setup Mono Possible values: Mono | Stereo | Binaural | Ambisonic | Array | Multi-Channel | Variable
Number of channels 1
Material
Source Original Possible values: Original | Youtube | Freesound | Online | Crowdsourced | [Dataset name]

Content

Content type Freefield 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 Uncontrolled 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 18510 files Total number of files
Total duration (minutes) 3085 min Total duration of the dataset in minutes
File length Constant Characterization of the file lengths, possible values: Constant | Quasi-constant | Variable
File length (seconds) 10 sec Approximate length of files

Meta

Label Value Description
Types Tag Annotator Timestamp Geolocation Presence Proximity 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 23 Number of event classes
Classes
  • alert signal
  • amplified speech
  • car alarm
  • car horn
  • chainsaw
  • dog
  • dog barking whining
  • engine
  • engine of uncertain size
  • hoe ram
  • human voice
  • ice-cream truck
  • jackhammer
  • large crowd
  • large rotating saw
  • large sounding engine
  • machinery impact
  • medium sounding engine
  • mobile music
  • music
  • music from uncertain source
  • non-machinery impact
  • other unknown alert signal
  • other unknown human voice
  • other unknown impact machinery
  • other unknown powered saw
  • person or small group shouting
  • person or small group talking
  • pile driver
  • powered saw
  • reverse beeper
  • rock drill
  • siren
  • small medium rotating saw
  • small sounding engine
  • stationary music
Annotation
Type Weak Possible values: Strong | Weak | Location | None
Source Experts Crowdsourced Possible values: Experts | Crowdsourced | Synthetic | Metadata | Automatic
Annotations per item 3 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 Yes
Labeling
Hierarchical Yes
Ontology name Yes
Instance
Count 18510 Count of all event instances in the dataset
Average instances per class 804.78 Average per class instance count

Cross-validation setup

Label Value Description
Provided Yes
Folds 3
Sets Train Test Val 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

Info

Label Value Description
Evaluation campaign DCASE2019 task5, DCASE2020 task5 Evaluation campaigns where the dataset was used.