sed_vis - Visualization toolbox for Sound Event Detection

sed_vis is an open source Python toolbox for visualizing the annotations and system outputs of sound event detection systems.

There is an event roll-type of visualizer to show annotation and/or system output along with the audio signal. The audio signal can be played and indicator bar can be used to follow the sound events.

The visualization tool can be used in any of the following ways:

• By using the included visualizer script directly. This is suitable users who do not normally use Python.
• By importing it and calling it from your own Python code

Installation instructions

Easiest way to install is to use pip:

git clone https://github.com/TUT-ARG/sed_vis.git
pip install -e sed_vis

To uninstall:

pip uninstall sed_vis

To install from source using setup.py, first install the dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

and then run:

python setup.py install

To uninstall the toolbox:

python setup.py install --record files.txt to get files associated with toolbox

cat files.txt | xargs rm -rf to remove the files recorded by the previous step.

You can also install the toolbox in develop mode:

python setup.py develop

Toolbox can be uninstalled:

python setup.py develop --uninstall

Requirements

The toolbox is tested with Python 2.7.10.

• numpy >= 1.7.0
• scipy >= 0.9.0
• matplotlib >= 1.4.0
• pyaudio >= 0.2.7
• dcase_util >= 0.1.5

Mac

In order to toolbox work with Mac, matplotlib need to use TkAgg backend. The toolbox will automatically try to set appropriate backend.

Quickstart: Using the visualizer

The easiest way to visualize sound events with sed_vis is to use provided visualizer script.

Visualizers are Python scripts which can be run from the command prompt and utilize sed_vis to visualize reference and estimated annotations you provide. To use the visualizers, you must first install sed_vis and its dependencies. The visualizers scripts can be found in the sed_vis repository in the visualizers folder:

https://github.com/TUT-ARG/sed_vis/tree/master/visualizers

Currently there is one visualizer available, which is visualizing events as event roll.

To get usage help:

./sed_visualizer.py --help

To visualize reference and estimated annotations along with audio:

./sed_visualizer.py -a ../tests/data/a001.wav -l ../tests/data/a001.ann ../tests/data/a001_system_output.ann -n reference system

Where argument -l ../tests/data/a001.ann ../tests/data/a001_system_output.ann gives list of event lists to be visualized and argument -n reference system gives name identifiers for them.

This will show window with three panels:

1. Selector panel, use this to zoom in, zoom out by clicking
2. Spectrogram or time domain panel
3. Event roll, event instances can be played back by clicking them

To visualize only reference annotation along with audio:

./sed_visualizer.py -a ../tests/data/a001.wav -l ../tests/data/a001.ann -n reference

To visualize only reference annotation along with audio, with only certain sound event labels visible:

./sed_visualizer.py -a ../tests/data/a001.wav -l ../tests/data/a001.ann -n reference -e "bird singing" "car passing by"

To visualize only reference annotation along with audio using only time domain representations:

./sed_visualizer.py -a ../tests/data/a001.wav -l ../tests/data/a001.ann -n reference --time_domain

To visualize only reference annotation along with audio, and merging events having only small gap between them (<100ms):

./sed_visualizer.py -a ../tests/data/a001.wav -l ../tests/data/a001.ann -n reference --minimum_event_gap=0.1

To prepare visuals for publication. This will remove all audio playback buttons and tighten the layout. Also font size is increased. Use figure save button to save figure in svg format. One can use Inkscape to edit figure further and save into eps-format.

./sed_visualizer.py -a ../tests/data/a001.wav -l ../tests/data/a001.ann -n reference --publication

Quickstart: Using sed_vis in Python code

After sed_vis is installed, it can be imported and used to your Python code as follows:

import sed_vis
import dcase_util

# Load audio signal first
audio_container = dcase_util.containers.AudioContainer().load(
    'tests/data/a001.wav'
)

# Load event lists
reference_event_list = dcase_util.containers.MetaDataContainer().load(
    'tests/data/a001.ann'
)
estimated_event_list = dcase_util.containers.MetaDataContainer().load(
    'tests/data/a001_system_output.ann'
)

event_lists = {
    'reference': reference_event_list, 
    'estimated': estimated_event_list
}

# Visualize the data
vis = sed_vis.visualization.EventListVisualizer(event_lists=event_lists,
                                                audio_signal=audio_container.data,
                                                sampling_rate=audio_container.fs)
vis.show()

License

Code released under the MIT license.