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Recently, deep neural networks, which include convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been widely applied to acoustic scene classification (ASC). Motivated by the fact that some simplified CNNs have shown improvements over deep CNNs, such as Visual Geometry Group Net (VGG-Net), we have figured out how to simplify the VGG-Net style architecture to a shallow CNN with improved performance. Max pooling and batch normalization are also applied for better accuracy. With a series of controlled tests on detection and classification of acoustic scenes and events (DCASE) 2016 data sets, our shallow CNN achieves 6.7% improvement, and reduces time complexity to 5%, compared with the VGG-Net style CNN.
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Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61102127, 61231015), National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program, 2015AA016306), National Key Research and Development Program (2016YFB0502204), the Innovation Fund of Shanghai Aerospace Science and Technology (SAST, 2015014), the Key Technology R&D Program of Hubei Provence (2014BAA153), and SKLSE-2015-A-06
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Lu, L., Yang, Y., Jiang, Y. et al. Shallow Convolutional Neural Networks for Acoustic Scene Classification. Wuhan Univ. J. Nat. Sci. 23, 178–184 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11859-018-1308-z
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