Hello, everyone.
There are many situations where we may want to monitor sounds that happen without warning, such as breaking glass or a car horn. Registering every possible sound in advance, however, is not realistic.
Today, I am testing whether YAMNet can detect that a sound stream has changed, without first specifying which sound it should recognize.
The short answer is that the best configuration detected 22 of 48 events, for 45.8% recall. Processing was easily fast enough, but the results did not support the hypothesis that a simple distance over YAMNet embeddings can reliably detect unseen sudden sounds.
What Is YAMNet?
