This repository provides models and supporting code associated with AudioSet, a dataset of over 2 million human-labeled 10-second YouTube video soundtracks, with labels taken from an ontology of more than 600 audio event classes.
AudioSet was released in March 2017 by Google's Sound Understanding team to provide a common large-scale evaluation task for audio event detection as well as a starting point for a comprehensive vocabulary of sound events.
For more details about AudioSet and the various models we have trained, please visit the AudioSet website and read our papers:
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Gemmeke, J. et. al., AudioSet: An ontology and human-labelled dataset for audio events, ICASSP 2017
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Hershey, S. et. al., CNN Architectures for Large-Scale Audio Classification, ICASSP 2017
If you use the pre-trained VGGish model in your published research, we ask that you cite CNN Architectures for Large-Scale Audio Classification. If you use the AudioSet dataset or the released 128-D embeddings of AudioSet segments, please cite AudioSet: An ontology and human-labelled dataset for audio events.
The initial AudioSet release included 128-dimensional embeddings of each AudioSet segment produced from a VGG-like audio classification model that was trained on a large YouTube dataset (a preliminary version of what later became YouTube-8M).
We provide a TensorFlow definition of this model, which we call VGGish, as well as supporting code to extract input features for the model from audio waveforms and to post-process the model embedding output into the same format as the released embedding features.
VGGish depends on the following Python packages:
These are all easily installable via, e.g., pip install numpy (as in the
example command sequence below).
Any reasonably recent version of these packages should work. TensorFlow should be at least version 1.0. We have tested that everything works on Ubuntu and Windows 10 with Python 3.6.6, Numpy v1.15.4, SciPy v1.1.0, resampy v0.2.1, TensorFlow v1.3.0, Six v1.11.0 and PySoundFile 0.9.0.
VGGish also requires downloading two data files:
- VGGish model checkpoint, in TensorFlow checkpoint format.
- Embedding PCA parameters, in NumPy compressed archive format.
After downloading these files into the same directory as this README, the
installation can be tested by running python vggish_smoke_test.py which
runs a known signal through the model and checks the output.
Here's a sample installation and test session:
# You can optionally install and test VGGish within a Python virtualenv, which
# is useful for isolating changes from the rest of your system. For example, you
# may have an existing version of some packages that you do not want to upgrade,
# or you want to try Python 3 instead of Python 2. If you decide to use a
# virtualenv, you can create one by running
# $ virtualenv vggish # For Python 2
# or
# $ python3 -m venv vggish # For Python 3
# and then enter the virtual environment by running
# $ source vggish/bin/activate # Assuming you use bash
# Leave the virtual environment at the end of the session by running
# $ deactivate
# Within the virtual environment, do not use 'sudo'.
# Upgrade pip first.
$ sudo python -m pip install --upgrade pip
# Install dependences. Resampy needs to be installed after NumPy and SciPy
# are already installed.
$ sudo pip install numpy scipy
$ sudo pip install resampy tensorflow six
# Clone TensorFlow models repo into a 'models' directory.
$ git clone https://github.com/tensorflow/models.git
$ cd models/research/audioset
# Download data files into same directory as code.
$ curl -O https://storage.googleapis.com/audioset/vggish_model.ckpt
$ curl -O https://storage.googleapis.com/audioset/vggish_pca_params.npz
# Installation ready, let's test it.
$ python vggish_smoke_test.py
# If we see "Looks Good To Me", then we're all set.VGGish can be used in two ways:
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As a feature extractor: VGGish converts audio input features into a semantically meaningful, high-level 128-D embedding which can be fed as input to a downstream classification model. The downstream model can be shallower than usual because the VGGish embedding is more semantically compact than raw audio features.
So, for example, you could train a classifier for 10 of the AudioSet classes by using the released embeddings as features. Then, you could use that trained classifier with any arbitrary audio input by running the audio through the audio feature extractor and VGGish model provided here, passing the resulting embedding features as input to your trained model.
vggish_inference.pyshows how to produce VGGish embeddings from arbitrary audio. -
As part of a larger model: Here, we treat VGGish as a "warm start" for the lower layers of a model that takes audio features as input and adds more layers on top of the VGGish embedding. This can be used to fine-tune VGGish (or parts thereof) if you have large datasets that might be very different from the typical YouTube video clip.
vggish_train_demo.pyshows how to add layers on top of VGGish and train the whole model.
The VGGish code layout is as follows:
vggish_slim.py: Model definition in TensorFlow Slim notation.vggish_params.py: Hyperparameters.vggish_input.py: Converter from audio waveform into input examples.mel_features.py: Audio feature extraction helpers.vggish_postprocess.py: Embedding postprocessing.vggish_inference.py: Demo of VGGish in inference mode.vggish_train_demo.py: Demo of VGGish in training mode.vggish_smoke_test.py: Simple test of a VGGish installation
See vggish_slim.py and vggish_params.py.
VGGish is a variant of the VGG model, in particular Configuration A with 11 weight layers. Specifically, here are the changes we made:
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The input size was changed to 96x64 for log mel spectrogram audio inputs.
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We drop the last group of convolutional and maxpool layers, so we now have only four groups of convolution/maxpool layers instead of five.
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Instead of a 1000-wide fully connected layer at the end, we use a 128-wide fully connected layer. This acts as a compact embedding layer.
The model definition provided here defines layers up to and including the 128-wide embedding layer.
See vggish_input.py and mel_features.py.
VGGish was trained with audio features computed as follows:
- All audio is resampled to 16 kHz mono.
- A spectrogram is computed using magnitudes of the Short-Time Fourier Transform with a window size of 25 ms, a window hop of 10 ms, and a periodic Hann window.
- A mel spectrogram is computed by mapping the spectrogram to 64 mel bins covering the range 125-7500 Hz.
- A stabilized log mel spectrogram is computed by applying log(mel-spectrum + 0.01) where the offset is used to avoid taking a logarithm of zero.
- These features are then framed into non-overlapping examples of 0.96 seconds, where each example covers 64 mel bands and 96 frames of 10 ms each.
We provide our own NumPy implementation that produces features that are very similar to those produced by our internal production code. This results in embedding outputs that are closely match the embeddings that we have already released. Note that these embeddings will not be bit-for-bit identical to the released embeddings due to small differences between the feature computation code paths, and even between two different installations of VGGish with different underlying libraries and hardware. However, we expect that the embeddings will be equivalent in the context of a downstream classification task.
See vggish_postprocess.py.
The released AudioSet embeddings were postprocessed before release by applying a PCA transformation (which performs both PCA and whitening) as well as quantization to 8 bits per embedding element. This was done to be compatible with the YouTube-8M project which has released visual and audio embeddings for millions of YouTube videos in the same PCA/whitened/quantized format.
We provide a Python implementation of the postprocessing which can be applied to
batches of embeddings produced by VGGish. vggish_inference.py shows how
the postprocessor can be run after inference.
If you don't need to use the released embeddings or YouTube-8M, then you could skip postprocessing and use raw embeddings.
A Colab showing how to download the model and calculate the embeddings on your own sound data is available here: AudioSet Embedding Colab.
Below are some of the things we would like to add to this repository. We welcome pull requests for these or other enhancements, but please consider sending an email to the mailing list (see the Contact section) describing what you plan to do before you invest a lot of time, to get feedback from us and the rest of the community.
- An AudioSet classifier trained on top of the VGGish embeddings to predict all the AudioSet labels. This can act as a baseline for audio research using AudioSet.
- Feature extraction implemented within TensorFlow using the upcoming tf.contrib.signal ops.
- A Keras version of the VGGish model definition and checkpoint.
- Jupyter notebook demonstrating audio feature extraction and model performance.
For general questions about AudioSet and VGGish, please use the audioset-users@googlegroups.com mailing list.
For technical problems with the released model and code, please open an issue on the tensorflow/models issue tracker and assign to @plakal and @dpwe. Please note that because the issue tracker is shared across all models released by Google, we won't be notified about an issue unless you explicitly @-mention us (@plakal and @dpwe) or assign the issue to us.
Original authors and reviewers of the code in this package include (in alphabetical order):
- DAn Ellis
- Shawn Hershey
- Aren Jansen
- Manoj Plakal