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Disentangling Hierarchical Features for Anomalous Sound Detection Under Domain Shift

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Anomalous sound detection (ASD) encounters difficulties with domain shift, where the sounds of machines in target domains differ significantly from those in source domains due to varying operating conditions. Existing methods typically employ domain classifiers to enhance detection performance, but they often overlook the influence of domain-unrelated information. This oversight can hinder the model's ability to clearly distinguish between domains, thereby weakening its capacity to differentiate normal from abnormal sounds. In this paper, we propose a Gradient Reversal-based Hierarchical feature Disentanglement (GRHD) method to address the above challenge. GRHD uses gradient reversal to separate domain-related features from domain-unrelated ones, resulting in more robust feature representations. Additionally, the method employs a hierarchical structure to guide the learning of fine-grained, domain-specific features by leveraging available metadata, such as section IDs and machine sound attributes. Experimental results on the DCASE 2022 Challenge Task 2 dataset demonstrate that the proposed method significantly improves ASD performance under domain shift.

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Jian Guan, Jiantong Tian, Qiaoxi Zhu, Feiyang Xiao, Hejing Zhang, Xubo Liu. 2025-01-03. Disentangling Hierarchical Features for Anomalous Sound Detection Under Domain Shift. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01604

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