The objectives of SONYC are to create technological solutions for:
- The systematic, constant monitoring of noise pollution at city scale.
- The accurate description of acoustic environments in terms of its composing sources.
- Broadening citizen participation in noise reporting and mitigation.
- Enabling city agencies to take effective, information-driven action for noise mitigation.
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Further information including news updates, publications, and project collaborators is available at the SONYC website.
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by a seed grant from New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP).
Publications
SONYC: A System for the Monitoring, Analysis and Mitigation of Urban Noise Pollution
J. P. Bello, C. Silva, O. Nov, R. L. DuBios, A. Arora, J. Salamon, C. Mydlarz, H. Doraiswamy
SONYC: A System for the Monitoring, Analysis and Mitigation of Urban Noise Pollution
Communications of the ACM (CACM), 2018.
Adaptive pooling operators for weakly labeled sound event detection
B. Mcfee, J. Salamon, and J. P. Bello
Adaptive pooling operators for weakly labeled sound event detection
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2018.
Time Lattice: A Data Structure for the Interactive Visual Analysis of Large Time Series
F. Miranda, M. Lage, H. Doraiswamy, C. Mydlarz, J. Salamon, Y. Lockerman, J. Freire, C. Silva
Time Lattice: A Data Structure for the Interactive Visual Analysis of Large Time Series
Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis '18), 37(3), 2018, 13-22
Investigating the Effect of Sound-Event Loudness on Crowdsourced Audio Annotations
M. Cartwright, J. Salamon, A. Seals, O. Nov, and J. P. Bello
Investigating the Effect of Sound-Event Loudness on Crowdsourced Audio Annotations
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, Canada, Apr. 2018.
Sound Analysis in Smart Cities
J. P. Bello, C. Mydlarz, and J. Salamon
Sound Analysis in Smart Cities
In T. Virtanen, M. D. Plumbley, and D. P. W. Ellis, editors, Computational Analysis of Sound Scenes and Events, pages 373–397. Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Seeing sound: Investigating the effects of visualizations and complexity on crowdsourced audio annotations
M. Cartwright, A. Seals, J. Salamon, A. Williams, S. Mikloska, D. MacConnell, E. Law, J. Bello, and O. Nov.
Seeing sound: Investigating the effects of visualizations and complexity on crowdsourced audio annotations
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 1(2), 2017.
Scaper: A Library for Soundscape Synthesis and Augmentation
J. Salamon, D. MacConnell, M. Cartwright, P. Li, and J. P. Bello.
Scaper: A Library for Soundscape Synthesis and Augmentation
In IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, NY, USA, Oct. 2017.
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation For Environmental Sound Classification
J. Salamon and J. P. Bello
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation For Environmental Sound Classification
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, In Press, 2017.
The Implementation of Low-cost Urban Acoustic Monitoring Devices
C. Mydlarz, J. Salamon and J. P. Bello
The Implementation of Low-cost Urban Acoustic Monitoring Devices
Applied Acoustics, special issue on Acoustics for Smart Cities, 2016
Feature Learning with Deep Scattering for Urban Sound Analysis
J. Salamon and J. P. Bello
Feature Learning with Deep Scattering for Urban Sound Analysis
2015 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Nice, France, August 2015.
The Design and Calibration of Low Cost Urban Acoustic Sensing Devices
C. Mydlarz, C. Shamoon, M. Pimpinella and M. Baglione
The Design and Calibration of Low Cost Urban Acoustic Sensing Devices
In 10th European Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (EuroNoise), Maastricht, The Netherlands, May 2015.
Unsupervised Feature Learning for Urban Sound Classification
J. Salamon and J. P. Bello
Unsupervised Feature Learning for Urban Sound Classification
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brisbane, Australia, April 2015.
A Dataset and Taxonomy for Urban Sound Research
J. Salamon, C. Jacoby and J. P. Bello
A Dataset and Taxonomy for Urban Sound Research
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pages 1041-1044, Orlando, USA, Nov. 2014.
The Design of Urban Sound Monitoring Devices
C. Mydlarz, S. Nacach, T.H. Park, A. Roginska.
The Design of Urban Sound Monitoring Devices
2014 Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention 137, Los Angeles, USA, October 2014.
The Implementation of MEMS Microphones for Urban Sound Sensing
C. Mydlarz, S. Nacach, E. Rosenthal, M. Temple, T.H. Park, A. Roginska.
The Implementation of MEMS Microphones for Urban Sound Sensing
2014 Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention 137, Los Angeles, USA, October 2014.