Optimizing acoustic feature extractor for anomalous sound detection based on Neyman-Pearson lemma

Abstract

We propose a method for optimizing an acoustic feature extractor for anomalous sound detection (ASD). Most ASD systems adopt outlier-detection techniques because it is difficult to collect a massive amount of anomalous sound data. To improve the performance of such outlier-detection-based ASD, it is essential to extract a set of efficient acoustic features that is suitable for identifying anomalous sounds. However, the ideal property of a set of acoustic features that maximizes ASD performance has not been clarified. By considering outlier-detection-based ASD as a statistical hypothesis test, we defined optimality as an objective function that adopts Neyman-Pearson lemma; the acoustic feature extractor is optimized to extract a set of acoustic features which maximize the true positive rate under an arbitrary false positive rate. The variational auto-encoder is applied as an acoustic feature extractor and optimized to maximize the objective function. We confirmed that the proposed method improved the F-measure score from 0.02 to 0.06 points compared to those of conventional methods, and ASD results of a stereolithography 3D-printer in a real-environment show that the proposed method is effective in identifying anomalous sounds.