Acoustic Scene Classification Using Deep Learning-based Ensemble Averaging

Abstract

In our submission to the DCASE 2019 Task 1a, we have explored the use of four different deep learning based neural networks architectures: Vgg12, ResNet50, AclNet, and AclSincNet. In order to improve performance, these four network architectures were pre-trained with Audioset data, and then fine-tuned over the development set for the task. The outputs produced by these networks, due to the diversity of feature front-end and of architecture differences, proved to be complementary when fused together. The ensemble of these models' outputs improved from best single model accuracy of 77.9% to 83.0% on the validation set, trained with the challenge default's development split. For the challenge's evaluation set, our best ensemble resulted in 81.3% of classification accuracy.