AFDS-Net: An Attention-Fused Depthwise Separable Network for Acoustic Scene Classification
摘要
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used in acoustic scene classification (ASC) for their ability to extract informative features by fusing time-frequency and channel information. However, in resource-constrained environments, CNN-based ASC models often suffer from limited accuracy and robustness. To address this, we propose an Attention-Fused Depthwise Separable Network (AFDS-Net), which leverages ERes2NetV2 as its backbone and enhances performance through two key components. First, a Depthwise Feature Fusion (DFF) block is developed to facilitate the precise aggregation of local features within the residual block, leveraging an improved attention mechanism to preserve fine-grained feature representation effectively. Second, a Channel Feature Enhancement (CFE) block integrates Depthwise Separable Convolution (DSConv) with a Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) mechanism for adaptive cross-channel weighting. Building on these, a Bottom-up Two-stage Feature Fusion (BTFF) enhances time-frequency modeling for short audio by synergizing DFF and CFE. Experiments on the TAU 2020 dataset show that AFDS-Net achieves 75.3% accuracy with a comparable parameter count, delivering a 50.2% absolute improvement over the baseline and strong generalization across datasets.