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Improving Anomalous Sound Detection Through Pseudo-anomalous Set Selection and Pseudo-label Utilization Under Unlabeled Conditions

Ibuki Kuroyanagi, Nagoya University, Japan, kuroyanagi.ibuki@g.sp.m.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp , Takuya Fujimura, Nagoya University, Japan, Kazuya Takeda, Nagoya University, Japan, Tomoki Toda, Nagoya University, Japan
 
Suggested Citation
Ibuki Kuroyanagi, Takuya Fujimura, Kazuya Takeda and Tomoki Toda (2025), "Improving Anomalous Sound Detection Through Pseudo-anomalous Set Selection and Pseudo-label Utilization Under Unlabeled Conditions", APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing: Vol. 14: No. 1, e13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/116.20250017

Publication Date: 16 Jun 2025
© 2025 I. Kuroyanagi, T. Fujimura, K. Takeda and T. Toda
 
Subjects
Detection and estimation,  Pattern recognition and learning,  Feature detection and selection,  Audio signal processing,  Sampling,  Classification and prediction,  Clustering,  Deep learning
 
Keywords
Anomalous sound detectionpseudo-labeldomain shiftexternal datatriplet learning
 

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In this article:
Introduction 
The Issues with Discriminative Model-based Methods 
State-of-the-art Method Under Labeled Conditions 
Proposed Method 
Experimental Evaluations 
Conclusion 
Appendix 
References 

Abstract

This paper addresses performance degradation in anomalous sound detection (ASD) when neither sufficiently similar machine data nor operational state labels are available. We present an integrated pipeline that combines three complementary components derived from prior work and extends them to the unlabeled ASD setting. First, we adapt an anomalyscorebased selector to curate external audio data resembling the normal sounds of the target machine. Second, we utilize triplet learning to assign pseudo-labels to unlabeled data, enabling finer classification of operational sounds and detection of subtle anomalies. Third, we employ iterative training to refine both the pseudo-anomalous set selection and pseudo-label assignment, progressively improving detection accuracy. Experiments on the DCASE2022–2024 Task 2 datasets demonstrate that, in unlabeled settings, our approach achieves an average AUC increase of over 6.6 points compared to conventional methods. In labeled settings, incorporating external data from the pseudo-anomalous set further boosts performance. These results highlight the practicality and robustness of our methods in scenarios with scarce machine data and labels, facilitating ASD deployment across diverse industrial settings with minimal annotation effort.

DOI:10.1561/116.20250017