MATS - Multi-Annotator Tagged Soundscapes

sounds

General information

Label Value Description
Name MATS - Multi-Annotator Tagged Soundscapes Full dataset name
ID sounds/tau_mats Datalist id for external indexing
Abbreviation MATS Official dataset abbreviation, e.g. one used in the original paper
Provider TAU
Year 2021 Dataset release year
Modalities Audio Data modalities included in the dataset
Collection name MATS Common name for all related datasets, used to group datasets coming from same source
Research domain Tagging Weak annotation Multi-annotator 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
Related datasets name
License Free
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Citation [MartinMorato2021] What is the ground truth? reliability of multi-annotator data for audio tagging

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 24 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 Binaural Possible values: Mono | Stereo | Binaural | Ambisonic | Array | Multi-Channel | Variable
Number of channels 2
Material
Source Original Possible values: Original | Youtube | Freesound | Online | Crowdsourced | [Dataset name]
Variability sources Country City Location Position Possible values: Country | City | Location | Position | Device

Content

Content type Freefield Possible values: Freefield | Synthetic | Isolated
Scene Constant Is the scene class constant for single recording, possible values: Constant | Variable

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 3930 files Total number of files
Total duration (minutes) 655 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 Scene Annotator List of meta data types provided for the data, possible values: Event, Tag, Scene, Caption, Geolocation, Spatial location, Annotator, Timestamp, Presence, Proximity, etc.

Scene

Classes 3 Number of scene classes
Classes
  • Airport
  • Public square
  • Park

Event

Classes 10 Number of event classes
Annotation
Type Weak Possible values: Strong | Weak | Location | None
Source Crowdsourced Possible values: Experts | Crowdsourced | Synthetic | Metadata | Automatic
Annotations per item 5 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
Validated amount (%) 100 % Percentage of all data, amount of data which is validated by human
Strong annotations amount (%) 0 % Percentage of all data, amount of data which has strong annotations
Overlapping event instances Yes
Labeling
Hierarchical No
Instance

Cross-validation setup

Label Value Description
Provided No