AcousticSceneBD: A real-world environmental audio dataset for acoustic scene classification in Bangladesh
Tasnova Haque Mazumder, Akash Ahmed, Dilruba Akter, Amin Ocin, Raihan Ul Islam, Mohammad Rifat Ahmmad Rashid, Shamim H Ripon, Ahmed Wasif Reza · 2026
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Description
Mazumder and colleagues present in 2026 AcousticSceneBD, a real-world sound dataset recorded in Bangladesh for teaching machines to recognize acoustic scenes, the overall sound character of a place. Existing benchmark collections mostly capture Western environments.
The dataset holds 5,535 ten-second recordings across seven scene classes: bus, metro, park, metro station, restaurant, shopping mall, and university. Everything was captured with ordinary smartphone microphones and standardized to mono recordings, totaling over fifteen hours of audio. The team built the collection through an eight-stage collection and processing pipeline for consistency. Four baseline models were tested to prove the data usable. A pretrained audio network performed best, reaching accuracy in the low eighty percent range, while a classic random forest on extracted sound features landed near fifty-nine percent.
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| CREATOR | Tasnova Haque Mazumder, Akash Ahmed, Dilruba Akter, Amin Ocin, Raihan Ul Islam, Mohammad Rifat Ahmmad Rashid, Shamim H Ripon, Ahmed Wasif Reza |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |