Audio Recognition Feature Fusion for Semantic and Position Accuracy

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing deep learning-based audio recognition techniques often sacrifice accurate position information in feature maps for higher-level semantic information, leading to incomplete feature extraction.

Innovation Solution

The method involves obtaining a target feature map by reconstructing multi-level feature maps to incorporate both rich semantic and high-resolution position information, and augmenting the feature representation using data augmentation techniques.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If convolution operations are used for feature extraction in deep learning-based audio recognition, then rich high-level semantic information is obtained, but accurate position information is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesemantic informationVSAvoidposition information
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the feature extraction process into multiple levels, where different convolutional layers extract features at different levels of abstraction. Early layers preserve position information while later layers extract semantic information, and the patent combines these segmented features through feature fusion to maintain both position and semantic information simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a new dimension by adding position encoding to the frequency-domain audio features. This position encoding dimension preserves spatial/temporal position information that would otherwise be lost in the frequency domain, allowing the model to maintain both position and semantic information through multi-dimensional feature representation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Measurement precision

If multi-level feature maps are reconstructed to include both semantic and position information, then feature extraction accuracy is improved, but computational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeature extraction accuracyVSAvoidcomputational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary action by pre-calculating position encoding matrices and storing them for reuse during inference. This avoids redundant computation of position information at each processing step, reducing computational complexity while maintaining the accuracy benefits of multi-level feature reconstruction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses copying by replicating position encoding information across multiple feature map levels and using data augmentation to create additional training samples. This allows the model to learn from diverse examples without requiring proportionally increased computational resources for each new sample.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS20260010566A1Audio recognition method and apparatus, electronic device, and computer program product
Publication Date: 2026.01.08 BEIJING YOUZHUJU NETWORK TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an audio recognition method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer program product. The method may include obtaining a target feature map of audio data based on a multi-level feature map of the audio data. The method may further include determining a feature representation of the audio data based on the target feature map. In addition, the method may further include determining a recognition result for the audio data at least based on the feature representation. By means of implementing the technical solution of the present disclosure, a determined feature representation has high-resolution position information, thereby optimizing the model performance and improving the user experience.