Publications

2026

Incremental learning for audio classification with Hebbian Deep Neural Networks

Riccardo Casciotti, Francesco De Santis, Alberto Antonietti, Annamaria Mesaros
ICASSP 2026-2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Full text of article Incremental learning for audio classification with Hebbian Deep Neural Networks

Self-labeling sounds using optimal transport

Manu Harju, Frederic Font, Annamaria Mesaros
IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing

Full text of article Self-labeling sounds using optimal transport

2025

Universal Incremental Learning for Few-Shot Bird Sound Classification

Manjunath Mulimani, Annamaria Mesaros
10th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2025), Barcelona, Spain,

Full text of article Universal Incremental Learning for Few-Shot Bird Sound Classification

Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification with Device Information in the DCASE 2025 Challenge

Florian Schmid, Paul Primus, Toni Heittola, Annamaria Mesaros, Irene Martin-Morato, Gerhard Widmer
10th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2025), Barcelona, Spain,

Full text of article Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification with Device Information in the DCASE 2025 Challenge

Sound event detection with audio-text models and heterogeneous temporal annotations

Manu Harju, Annamaria Mesaros
IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2025). Lake Tahoe

Full text of article Sound event detection with audio-text models and heterogeneous temporal annotations

Online incremental learning for audio classification using a pretrained audio model

Manjunath Mulimani, Annamaria Mesaros
IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2025). Lake Tahoe

Full text of article Online incremental learning for audio classification using a pretrained audio model

Learning order matters in class-incremental learning for sound localization and detection

Ruchi Pandey, Manjunath Mulimani, Archontis Politis, Annamaria Mesaros
33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Palermo, Italy

Full text of article Learning order matters in class-incremental learning for sound localization and detection

Computer Audition: From Task-Specific Machine Learning to Foundation Models

Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Iosif Tsangko, Alexander Gebhard, Annamaria Mesaros, Tuomas Virtanen, Björn W. Schuller
Proceedings of the IEEE

Full text of article Computer Audition: From Task-Specific Machine Learning to Foundation Models

A decade of DCASE: Achievements, practices, evaluations and future challenges

Annamaria Mesaros, Romain Serizel, Toni Heittola, Tuomas Virtanen, Mark D Plumbley
2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India

Full text of article A decade of DCASE: Achievements, practices, evaluations and future challenges

Domain-Incremental Learning for Audio Classification

Manjunath Mulimani, Annamaria Mesaros
2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India

Full text of article Domain-Incremental Learning for Audio Classification

Class-Incremental Learning for Sound Event Localization and Detection

Ruchi Pandey, Manjunath Mulimani, Archontis Politis, Annamaria Mesaros
2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2025 Workshop, Hyderabad, India

Full text of article Class-Incremental Learning for Sound Event Localization and Detection

A Closer Look at Class-Incremental Learning for Multi-Label Audio Classification

Manjunath Mulimani, Annamaria Mesaros
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (2025).

Full text of article A Closer Look at Class-Incremental Learning for Multi-Label Audio Classification

2024

Acoustic Scene Classification Across Multiple Devices Through Incremental Learning of Device-Specific Domains

Manjunath Mulimani, and Annamaria Mesaros
9th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2024), Tokyo, Japan

Full text of article Acoustic Scene Classification Across Multiple Devices Through Incremental Learning of Device-Specific Domains

Audio Captioning in Finnish and English with Task-Dependent Output

Irene Martín-Morató, Manu Harju, and Annamaria Mesaros
9th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2024), Tokyo, Japan

Full text of article Audio Captioning in Finnish and English with Task-Dependent Output

Guided Captioning of Audio

Irene Martín-Morató, James Afolaranmi, and Annamaria Mesaros
9th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2024), Tokyo, Japan

Full text of article Guided Captioning of Audio

Does Paid Crowdsourcing Still Pay Off? Sifting Through Annotator Noise in Crowdsourced Audio Labels

Manu Harju, Irene Martín-Morató, and Annamaria Mesaros
9th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2024), Tokyo, Japan

Full text of article Does Paid Crowdsourcing Still Pay Off? Sifting Through Annotator Noise in Crowdsourced Audio Labels

DCASE 2024 Task 4: Sound Event Detection with Heterogeneous Data and Missing Labels

Samuele Cornell, Janek Ebbers, Constance Douwes, Irene Martín-Morató, Manu Harju, Annamaria Mesaros, and Romain Serizel
9th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2024), Tokyo, Japan

Full text of article DCASE 2024 Task 4: Sound Event Detection with Heterogeneous Data and Missing Labels

Data-Efficient Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification in the DCASE 2024 Challenge

Florian Schmid, Paul Primus, Toni Heittola, Annamaria Mesaros, Irene Martín-Morató, Khaled Koutini, and Gerhard Widmer
9th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2024), Tokyo, Japan

Full text of article Data-Efficient Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification in the DCASE 2024 Challenge

Online Domain-Incremental Learning Approach to Classify Acoustic Scenes in All Locations

Manjunath Mulimani, Annamaria Mesaros
32nd European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO 2024, Lyon France

Full text of article Online Domain-Incremental Learning Approach to Classify Acoustic Scenes in All Locations

Sound event detection with soft labels: a new perspective on evaluation

Manu Harju, Irene Martın-Morato, Toni Heittola, Annamaria Mesaros
32nd European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO 2024, Lyon France

Full text of article Sound event detection with soft labels: a new perspective on evaluation

Sound Event Detection and Localization with Distance Estimation

Daniel Aleksander Krause, Archontis Politis, Annamaria Mesaros
32nd European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO 2024, Lyon France

Full text of article Sound Event Detection and Localization with Distance Estimation

Positive and negative sampling strategies for self-supervised learning on audio-video data

S. Wang, S. Tripathy, T. Heittola, A. Mesaros
IEEE ICASSP 2024 workshop Self-supervision in Audio, Speech and Beyond, Seoul, South Korea

Full text of article Positive and negative sampling strategies for self-supervised learning on audio-video data

Class-Incremental Learning for Multi-Label Audio Classification

M Mulimani, A Mesaros
ICASSP 2024-2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, south Korea

Full text of article Class-Incremental Learning for Multi-Label Audio Classification

2023

Binaural Sound Source Distance Estimation and Localization for a Moving Listener

DA Krause, G García-Barrios, A Politis, A Mesaros
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 32, pp. 996-1011, 2024, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2023.3346297

Full text of article Binaural Sound Source Distance Estimation and Localization for a Moving Listener

Evaluating classification systems against soft labels with fuzzy precision and recall

Manu Harju, Annamaria Mesaros
8th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2023), Tampere, Finland

Full text of article Evaluating classification systems against soft labels with fuzzy precision and recall

Incremental Learning of Acoustic Scenes and Sound Events

Manjunath Mulimani, Annamaria Mesaros
8th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2023), Tampere, Finland

Full text of article Incremental Learning of Acoustic Scenes and Sound Events

Sound event classification with object-based labels

James Afolaranmi, Irene Martin, Annamaria Mesaros
8th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2023), Tampere, Finland

Full text of article Sound event classification with object-based labels

Training sound event detection with soft labels from crowdsourced annotations

I. Martín-Morató, M. Harju, P. Ahokas, A. Mesaros
ICASSP 2023-2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes, Greece

Full text of article Training sound event detection with soft labels from crowdsourced annotations

Aggregate or separate: learning from multi-annotator noisy labels for best classification performance

Irene Martín-Morató, Paul Ahokas, Annamaria Mesaros
8th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2023), Tampere, Finland

Full text of article Aggregate or separate: learning from multi-annotator noisy labels for best classification performance

Self-supervised learning of audio representations using angular contrastive loss

S. Wang, S. Tripathy, A. Mesaros
ICASSP 2023-2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes, Greece

Full text of article Self-supervised learning of audio representations using angular contrastive loss

Strong labeling of sound events using crowdsourced weak labels and annotator competence estimation

Irene Martín-Morató, Annamaria Mesaros
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, VOL. 31, 2023, DOI 10.1109/TASLP.2022.3233468

Full text of article Strong labeling of sound events using crowdsourced weak labels and annotator competence estimation

2022

A Summarization Approach to Evaluating Audio Captioning

Irene Martin Morato, Manu Harju, Annamaria Mesaros
7th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2022), Nancy, France

Full text of article A Summarization Approach to Evaluating Audio Captioning

Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification in DCASE 2022 Challenge

Irene Martin-Morato, Francesco Paissan, Alberto Ancilotto, Toni Heittola, Annamaria Mesaros, Elisabetta Farella, Alessio Brutti, and Tuomas Virtanen
7th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2022), Nancy, France

Full text of article Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification in DCASE 2022 Challenge

Binaural source localization using deep learning and head rotation information

Guillermo Garcıa-Barrios, Daniel Aleksander Krause, Archontis Politis, Annamaria Mesaros, Juana M. Gutierrez-Arriola, Ruben Fraile
30th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2022). Belgrade, Serbia

Full text of article Binaural source localization using deep learning and head rotation information

Binaural Signal Representations for Joint Sound Event Detection and Acoustic Scene Classification

Daniel Aleksander Krause, Annamaria Mesaros
30th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2022). Belgrade, Serbia

Full text of article Binaural Signal Representations for Joint Sound Event Detection and Acoustic Scene Classification

Self-supervised Learning of Audio Representations from Audio-Visual Data using Spatial Alignment

Shanshan Wang, Archontis Politis, Annamaria Mesaros, and Tuomas Virtanen
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2022, doi: 10.1109/JSTSP.2022.3180592.

Full text of article Self-supervised Learning of Audio Representations from Audio-Visual Data using Spatial Alignment

2021

Diversity and Bias in Audio Captioning Datasets

Irene Martin and Annamaria Mesaros
Proceedings of the 6th Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events 2021 Workshop (DCASE2021)

Full text of article Diversity and Bias in Audio Captioning Datasets

Audio-visual scene classification: analysis of DCASE 2021 Challenge submissions

Shanshan Wang, Toni Heittola, Annamaria Mesaros, Tuomas Virtanen
In Proceedings of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events 2021 Workshop (DCASE2021). Barcelona, Spain (online), Nov 2021.

Full text of article Audio-visual scene classification: analysis of DCASE 2021 Challenge submissions

Low-complexity acoustic scene classification for multi-device audio: analysis of DCASE 2021 Challenge systems

Irene Martín-Morató, Toni Heittola, Annamaria Mesaros, Tuomas Virtanen
In Proceedings of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events 2021 Workshop (DCASE2021). Barcelona, Spain (online), Nov 2021.

Full text of article Low-complexity acoustic scene classification for multi-device audio: analysis of DCASE 2021 Challenge systems

Sound event detection: a tutorial

Annamaria Mesaros, Toni Heittola, Tuomas Virtanen, Mark D. Plumbley
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 67-83, Sept. 2021,
doi:10.1109/MSP.2021.3090678.

Full text of article Sound event detection: a tutorial

Crowdsourcing strong labels for sound event detection

Irene Martin Morato, Manu Harju, Annamaria Mesaros
In IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2021). New Paltz, NY, Oct 2021.

Full text of article Crowdsourcing strong labels for sound event detection

Joint direction and proximity classification of overlapping sound events from binaural audio

Daniel Aleksander Krause, Archontis Politis, Annamaria Mesaros
In IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2021). New Paltz, NY, Oct 2021.

Full text of article Joint direction and proximity classification of overlapping sound events from binaural audio

What is the ground truth? Reliability of multi-annotator data for audio tagging

Irene Martin-Morato, Annamaria Mesaros
29th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2021
Dataset download link:10.5281/zenodo.4774959

Full text of article What is the ground truth? Reliability of multi-annotator data for audio tagging

A curated dataset of urban acoustic scenes for audio-visual scene analysis

Shanshan Wang, Annamaria Mesaros, Toni Heittola, and Tuomas Virtanen
In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Dataset download link:10.5281/zenodo.4477542

Full text of article A curated dataset of urban acoustic scenes for audio-visual scene analysis

Overview and evaluation of sound event localization and detection in DCASE 2019

Archontis Politis, Annamaria Mesaros, Sharath Adavanne, Toni Heittola, and Tuomas Virtanen
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 29():684–698, 2021. doi:10.1109/TASLP.2020.3047233.

Full text of article Overview and evaluation of sound event localization and detection in DCASE 2019

2020

Acoustic scene classification in DCASE 2020 challenge: generalization across devices and low complexity solutions

Toni Heittola, Annamaria Mesaros, and Tuomas Virtanen
In Proceedings of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events 2020 Workshop (DCASE2020),

Full text of article Acoustic scene classification in DCASE 2020 challenge: generalization across devices and low complexity solutions

2019

Acoustic scene classification in DCASE 2019 challenge: closed and open set classification and data mismatch setups

Annamaria Mesaros, Toni Heittola, and Tuomas Virtanen
In Proceedings of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events 2019 Workshop (DCASE2019)

Full text of article Acoustic scene classification in DCASE 2019 challenge: closed and open set classification and data mismatch setups

City classification from multiple real-world sound scenes

Helen L. Bear, Toni Heittola, Annamaria Mesaros, Emmanouil Benetos, and Tuomas Virtanen
In IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)

Full text of article City classification from multiple real-world sound scenes

Joint measurement of localization and detection of sound events

Annamaria Mesaros, Sharath Adavanne, Archontis Politis, Toni Heittola, and Tuomas Virtanen
In IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)

Full text of article Joint measurement of localization and detection of sound events

Audio-based epileptic seizure dectection

Istiaq M.N Ahsan, Csaba Kertesz, Annamaria Mesaros, Toni Heittola, Andrew Knight, and Tuomas Virtanen
In 27th European Signal Processing Conference 2019 (EUSIPCO 2019)

Full text of article Audio-based epileptic seizure dectection

Sound event detection in the DCASE 2017 Challenge

Annamaria Mesaros, Aleksandr Diment, Benjamin Elizalde, Toni Heittola, Emmanuel Vincent, Bhiksha Raj, and Tuomas Virtanen
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 27(6):992–1006, June 2019. doi:10.1109/TASLP.2019.2907016

Full text of article Sound event detection in the DCASE 2017 Challenge

Sound event envelope estimation in polyphonic mixtures

Irene Martin-Morato, Annamaria Mesaros, Toni Heittola, Tuomas Virtanen, Maximo Cobos, and Francesc J. Ferri
In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Full text of article Sound event envelope estimation in polyphonic mixtures