A Military Audio Dataset for Situational Awareness and Surveillance

June Woo Kim, Chihyeon Yoon, Ho Young Jung

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Abstract

Audio classification related to military activities is a challenging task due to the high levels of background noise and the lack of suitable and publicly available datasets. To bridge this gap, this paper constructs and introduces a new military audio dataset, named MAD, which is suitable for training and evaluating audio classification systems. The proposed MAD dataset is extracted from various military videos and contains 8,075 sound samples from 7 classes corresponding to approximately 12 hours, exhibiting distinctive characteristics not presented in academic datasets typically used for machine learning research. We present a comprehensive description of the dataset, including its acoustic statistics and examples. We further conduct a comprehensive sound classification study of various deep learning algorithms on the MAD dataset. We are also releasing the source code to make it easy to build these systems. The presented dataset will be a valuable resource for evaluating the performance of existing algorithms and for advancing research in the field of acoustic-based hazardous situation surveillance systems.

Original languageEnglish
Article number668
JournalScientific data
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2024

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