Improving Audio Spectrogram Transformers for Sound Event Detection Through Multi-Stage Training
This technical report describes the CP-JKU team's submission for Task 4 Sound Event Detection with Heterogeneous Training Datasets and Potentially Missing Labels of the DCASE 24 Challenge. We fine-tune three large Audio Spectrogram Transformers, PaSST, BEATs, and ATST, on the joint DESED and MAESTRO datasets in a two-stage training procedure. The first stage closely matches the baseline system setup and trains a CRNN model while keeping the large pre-trained transformer model frozen. In the second stage, both CRNN and transformer are fine-tuned using heavily weighted self-supervised losses. After the second stage, we compute strong pseudo-labels for all audio clips in the training set using an ensemble of all three fine-tuned transformers. Then, in a second iteration, we repeat the two-stage training process and include a distillation loss based on the pseudo-labels, boosting single-model performance substantially. Additionally, we pre-train PaSST and ATST on the subset of AudioSet that comes with strong temporal labels, before fine-tuning them on the Task 4 datasets.
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