arXiv:2508. 00307v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce a U-net model for 360{\deg} acoustic source localization formulated as a spherical semantic segmentation task.
By Belman Jahir Rodriguez, Sergio F. Chevtchenko, Marcelo Herrera Martinez, Yeshwanth Bethi, Saeed Afshar
The paper investigates how to balance model size and fine‑tuning strategy for UAV audio classification. Using a dataset of 3,100 clips across 31 drone classes, it compares transformer and convolutional backbones under full fine‑tuning, classifier‑only fine‑tuning, and four parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning methods. Results show that selective batch‑norm tuning of EfficientNet‑B7 yields the best accuracy (97.65%) while updating less than 0.5% of parameters, and that lightweight CNNs generally outperform transformers in both accuracy and efficiency.
By Andrew P. Berg, Qian Zhang, Mia Y. Wang
arXiv:2605. 26310v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The detection of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is important for the protection of civilian and military infrastructure.
By Ungv\'ari Gerg\H{o}, Ferenc Braun, Attila \'Amon, P\'eter Kackst\"adter, J\'anos Volk, P\'eter Kov\'acs, Tam\'as D\'ozsa
arXiv:2607. 25887v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper explores the effectiveness of domain adaptation techniques when using convolutional neural network (CNN)-based and transformer-based feature representations for acoustic scene classification.
By Abhishek dileep, Shubham Sharma, Padmanabhan Rajan
The paper presents a compact underwater acoustic classification framework that integrates multi-representation feature engineering, temporal statistical pooling, and lightweight convolutional architectures for acoustic time-frequency and cochlear representations. Experiments on the ShipsEar dataset show a two-layer CNN achieving a macro F1 of 0.9918 and an RBF-SVM reaching 0.9883, but recording provenance issues limit verification of generalisation. When evaluated on the DeepShip dataset with recording-level partitioning, a 157K-parameter CNN attains a macro F1 of 0.7226, while a larger ResNet18 does not improve validation performance, underscoring the need for representation-aware design and rigorous evaluation for deployable systems.
By Abishek Soti, Thura Pyae Sone, Naqib Ibnul, Htoo Htet Aung, Henry Zhong, Gregory Cohen, Ying Xu
arXiv:2606. 11922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent respiratory sound classification (RSC) studies largely rely on CLS-token driven self-attention architectures such as the Audio Spectrogram Transformer (AST).
By Hemansh Shridhar, Miika Toikkanen, June-Woo Kim
AudioFuse is a hybrid architecture that jointly learns from spectrograms and raw waveforms to classify phonocardiograms. It combines a wide-and-shallow Vision Transformer for spectral features with a shallow 1D CNN for temporal waveforms, reducing overfitting while capturing complementary information. On the PhysioNet 2016 dataset, AudioFuse achieves a state‑of‑the‑art ROC‑AUC of 0.8608 and shows superior robustness to domain shift on the PASCAL dataset, outperforming both spectrogram‑only and waveform‑only baselines.
By Md. Saiful Bari Siddiqui, Utsab Saha
arXiv:2608. 08911v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) offer an opportunity to obtain ecological spatial point-process data at unprecedented scale.
By Jennifer N. Kampe, Changwoo J. Lee, Xin Shen, Ari Lehti\"o, Sandro von Brandenburg, Ossi Nokelainen, David B. Dunson, Otso Ovaskainen
arXiv:2511. 21325v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deepfake (DF) audio detectors still struggle to generalize to out of distribution inputs.
By Ido Nitzan Hidekel, Gal lifshitz, Khen Cohen, Dan Raviv
arXiv:2606. 27701v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While voice control is rapidly becoming a ubiquitous vector of human-AI communication, the risks facing these systems remain poorly understood.
By Andrew C. Cullen, Neil Marchant, Jiani Xie, Paul Montague, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein
arXiv:2601.08358v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Even though the ocean covers the majority of the planet's surface, it remains the least explored ecosystem. As light and radio waves do not propaga...
By Hilde I. Hummel, Sandjai Bhulai, Rob D. van der Mei, Burooj Ghani
arXiv:2607. 17761v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, speech deepfake detection (SDD) has achieved significant progress.
By Jun Xue, Zhuolin Yi, Yanzhen Ren, Yihuan Huang, Jiayu Xiong, Yi Chai, Guanxiang Feng, Jiajun Liu, Tong Zhang