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Table 1 Research approaches on the task of acoustic surveillance.

From: An Adaptive Framework for Acoustic Monitoring of Potential Hazards

Reference

Atypical sound classes

Model adaptation

Environments

Classifier

Features

Database

Proposed approach

Scream, gunshot and explosion

MAP adaptation of GMMs

Metro station, urban and military setting

GMM

MFCC, MPEG-7, CB-TEO, Intonation

Large audio corpora from professional sound effects collections

Clavel et al. [3]

Fear-type emotions

—

—

GMM

Prosody, audio quality, spectral, cepstral

SAFE corpus

Valenzise et al. [4]

Scream and gunshot

—

Public square

GMM

Temporal, spectral, cepstral, correlation

Movie soundtracks, internet and people shouts

Radhakrishnan and Divakaran [5]

Banging and non-neutral speech

—

Elevator

GMM

MFCC

Elevator recordings

Clavel et al. [6]

Gunshot

—

Public space

GMM

MFCC, spectral moments

CDs for the national French public radio

Harma et al. [7]

Interesting events in an office

Noise spectrum update

Office

Threshold, clustering

Temporal, spectral

Recordings from an office room

Rouas et al. [8]

Shout

Adaptive threshold for sound activity detection

Railway

GMM, SVM

Energy, MFCC

Recorded during 4 scenarios

Vacher et al. [9]

Scream and glass break

—

Apartment

GMM

Wavelet based cepstral coefficients

Laboratory recordings and RCWP

Atrey et al. [10]

Shout

—

Office corridor

GMM

ZCR, LPC, LPCC, LFCC

Recorded in office corridor