The ESC-50 dataset is a labeled collection of 2000 environmental audio recordings suitable for benchmarking methods of environmental sound classification. The dataset consists of 5-second-long ...

[and subsequent follow on work: Experimental Exploration of Compact Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for Non-temporal Real-time Fire Detection] "In this work we investigate the automatic ...

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