David B. Ramsay

HCU400: an Annotated Dataset for Exploring Aural Phenomenology through Causal Uncertainty

The way we perceive a sound depends on many aspects- its ecological frequency, acoustic features, typicality, and most notably, its identified source. In this paper, we present the HCU400: a dataset of 402 sounds ranging from easily identifiable everyday sounds to intentionally obscured artificial o…