Efficient multichannel detection of impulsive audio events for wireless networks

Impulsive audio events such as gunshots, explosions or glass shattering, are commonly associated with security threats, thus they are of particular interest for automated acoustic surveillance. Even though impulsive audio events are greatly influenced by their propagation path, little work has been...

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Autores: Sánchez Hevia, Héctor Adrián|||0000-0002-1519-0447, Gil Pita, Roberto|||0000-0002-1790-3834, Rosa Zurera, Manuel|||0000-0002-3073-3278
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/67684
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/67684
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2021.108005
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Multichannel detection
Automated surveillance
Wireless sensor networks
Telecomunicaciones
Telecommunication
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Sumario:Impulsive audio events such as gunshots, explosions or glass shattering, are commonly associated with security threats, thus they are of particular interest for automated acoustic surveillance. Even though impulsive audio events are greatly influenced by their propagation path, little work has been done in multichannel detection, and most precedents available in the literature deal with single-channel detection systems. Unfortunately, the spatial dependence of impulsive sound recordings proves as a problem for robust performance under real conditions. It is possible, however, to take advantage of the spatial diversity provided by a wireless sensor network to counteract this problem. In this paper, we show how an ensemble of spatially diverse detectors can greatly improve the performance of the system. We propose an efficient multichannel detection system of impulsive audio events intended for lowcost Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks. Our proposal is based on a low complexity classification algorithm and an efficient method to include temporal context into the feature vector. The obtained results show that the proposed detection system is capable of achieving a more than adequate performance without incurring large computational loads.