2024/10/30 by Ryuhaerang Choi, Soumyajit Chatterjee, Choi, Ryuhaerang +9
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · #Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) #Diverse Musicological Studies #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Music and Audio Processing #Sound (cs.SD) #Speech and Audio Processing #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2410.23008
openalex publication_date 2024/10/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Developing new machine learning applications often requires the collection of new datasets. However, existing datasets may already contain relevant information to train models for new purposes. We propose SoundCollage: a framework to discover new classes within audio datasets by incorporating (1) an audio pre-processing pipeline to decompose different sounds in audio samples, and (2) an automated model-based annotation mechanism to identify the discovered classes. Furthermore, we introduce the clarity measure to assess the coherence of the discovered classes for better training new downstream applications. Our evaluations show that the accuracy of downstream audio classifiers within discovered class samples and a held-out dataset improves over the baseline by up to 34.7% and 4.5%, respectively. These results highlight the potential of SoundCollage in making datasets reusable by labeling with newly discovered classes. To encourage further research in this area, we open-source our code at https://github.com/nokia-bell-labs/audio-class-discovery.