Urban Sound 8K is an audio dataset that contains 8732 labeled sound excerpts (<=4s) of urban sounds from 10 classes: air_conditioner, car_horn, children_playing, dog_bark, drilling, enginge_idling, gun_shot, jackhammer, siren, and street_music. The classes are drawn from the urban sound taxonomy. All excerpts are taken from field recordings uploaded to www.freesound.org.
Source: https://zenodo.org/record/401395
Image Source: https://urbansounddataset.weebly.com/urbansound8k.html
Variants: UrbanSound8K
This dataset is used in 1 benchmark:
| Task | Model | Paper | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Sound Classification | MATPAC (SSL, linear eval) | Masked Latent Prediction and Classification … | 2025-02-17 |
| Environmental Sound Classification | AudioCLIP | AudioCLIP: Extending CLIP to Image, … | 2021-06-24 |
| Environmental Sound Classification | 1DCNN | End-to-End Environmental Sound Classification using … | 2019-04-18 |
Recent papers with results on this dataset: