Acoustic Event Classification Using Spectrogram Features

Abstract

This paper investigates a new feature extraction method to extract different features from the spectrogram of an audio signal for Acoustic Event Classification (AEC). A new set of features is formulated and extracted from local spectrogram regions named blocks. The average recognition performance of proposed spectrogram based features and Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) with their deltas and accelerations on Support Vector Machines (SVM) is compared. In this work, different categories of acoustic events are considered from the Freiburg-106 dataset. Proposed features show significantly improved performance over conventional Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) for Acoustic Event Classification. © 2018 IEEE.