“Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” is the name for one of French artist Paul Gauguin’s most influential paintings. Unsurprisingly, these very questions have occupied the minds of countless philosophers, artists, and scholars since the beginning of human civilization. These questions become especially salient...
Sound is one of the most important mediums to understand the environment around us. Identifying a sound event in prerecorded audio (such as a police siren, a dog bark, or a creaking door in soundscapes) leads to a better understanding of the context where the sound events occurred. To do...