AudioInceptionNeXt: TCL AI LAB Submission to EPIC-SOUND Audio-Based-Interaction-Recognition Challenge 2023

07/14/2023

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by   Kin Wai Lau, et al.

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This report presents the technical details of our submission to the 2023 Epic-Kitchen EPIC-SOUNDS Audio-Based Interaction Recognition Challenge. The task is to learn the mapping from audio samples to their corresponding action labels. To achieve this goal, we propose a simple yet effective single-stream CNN-based architecture called AudioInceptionNeXt that operates on the time-frequency log-mel-spectrogram of the audio samples. Motivated by the design of the InceptionNeXt, we propose parallel multi-scale depthwise separable convolutional kernels in the AudioInceptionNeXt block, which enable the model to learn the time and frequency information more effectively. The large-scale separable kernels capture the long duration of activities and the global frequency semantic information, while the small-scale separable kernels capture the short duration of activities and local details of frequency information. Our approach achieved 55.43 test set, ranked as 1st on the public leaderboard. Codes are available anonymously at https://github.com/StevenLauHKHK/AudioInceptionNeXt.git.