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JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Volume 153, Issue 1, Pages 738-750Publisher
ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1121/10.0016887
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Noise exposure affects people's comfort and well-being in various contexts, such as work or learning environments. To assess sound environments, it is crucial to be able to separate sound sources in real contexts. Long-term monitoring provides abundant data that can be analyzed using machine and deep learning algorithms.
Noise exposure influences the comfort and well-being of people in several contexts, such as work or learning environments. For instance, in offices, different kind of noises can increase or drop the employees' productivity. Thus, the ability of separating sound sources in real contexts plays a key role in assessing sound environments. Long-term monitoring provide large amounts of data that can be analyzed through machine and deep learning algorithms. Based on previous works, an entire working day was recorded through a sound level meter. Both sound pressure levels and the digital audio recording were collected. Then, a dual clustering analysis was carried out to separate the two main sound sources experienced by workers: traffic and speech noises. The first method exploited the occurrences of sound pressure levels via Gaussian mixture model and K-means clustering. The second analysis performed a semi-supervised deep clustering analyzing the latent space of a variational autoencoder. Results show that both approaches were able to separate the sound sources. Spectral matching and the latent space of the variational autoencoder validated the assumptions underlying the proposed clustering methods.
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