November 6, 2023

Results of research on Anomaly Sound Detections presented at ISM 2023

Results of research on Anomaly Sound Detections presented at ISM 2023
We presented the latest results of our research on Anomaly Sound Detection at the International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing (ISM 2023) which took place in Lisbon on November 22nd -24th 2023.

This work is entitled “Locally Mask Convolutional Models for Anomalous Sound Detection by Deep Learning”. Anomalous Sound Detection by Deep Learning could be used to automatically detect malfunctions in mechanical products from their operating sounds. With many normal sounds but very few anomalous sounds available for training, one-class classification methods applied to sound spectrograms are the most suitable methods. Among them, the Masked Autoencoder for Distribution Estimation (MADE) method showed state-of-the-art results with transient anomalous sounds but poor results with sustained anomalous sounds. The loss of the spectro-temporal structure in the inputs possibly explaining this issue, we have modified a method recently designed for 2D image completion, the Locally Masked Convolutional model (LMConv), which is able to take advantage of the full 2D spectro-temporal structure of the inputs. When evaluated on industrial data, this new method outperforms a baseline Autoencoder method and the original MADE method.

  ROC curves for AE, MADE and LMConv models