@article{2e3b5cee52c343a58f43a705fbbf268e,
title = "BCNDataset: Description and analysis of an annotated night urban leisure sound dataset",
abstract = "Acoustic pollution has been associated with adverse effects on the health and life expectancy of people, especially when noise exposure happens during the nighttime. With over half of the world population living in urban areas, acoustic pollution is an important concern for city administrators, especially those focused on transportation and leisure noise. Advances in sensor and network technologies made the deployment of Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks (WASN) possible in cities, which, combined with artificial intelligence (AI), can enable smart services for their citizens. However, the creation of such services often requires structured environmental audio databases to train AI algorithms. This paper reports on an environmental audio dataset of 363 min and 53 s created in a lively area of the Barcelona city center, which targeted traffic and leisure events. This dataset, which is free and publicly available, can provide researchers with real-world acoustic data to help the development and testing of sound monitoring solutions for urban environments.",
keywords = "Acoustic dataset, Annoyance, Barcelona, Leisure noise, Road-traffic noise, Urban sound",
author = "Ester Vida{\~n}a-Vila and Leticia Duboc and Alsina-Pag{\`e}s, {Rosa Ma} and Francesc Polls and Harold Vargas",
note = "Funding Information: The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 712949 (TECNIOspring PLUS) and from the Agency for Business Competitiveness of the Government of Catalonia. The authors thank the Secretaria d'Universitats i Recerca del Departament d'Economia i Coneixement (Generalitat de Catalunya) under grant 2017 SGR 966 and the Ramon Llull University (ref. 2020.URL-Proj-053). The authors would like to thank our colleagues from the Environmental Department of Barcelona City Council for the guidance in this work, especially to Julia Camps. Funding Information: Funding: The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sk{\l}odowska-Curie grant agreement No. 712949 (TECNIOspring PLUS) and from the Agency for Business Competitiveness of the Government of Catalonia. The authors thank the Secretaria d{\textquoteright}Universitats i Recerca del Departament d{\textquoteright}Economia i Coneixement (Generalitat de Catalunya) under grant 2017 SGR 966 and the Ramon Llull University (ref. 2020.URL-Proj-053). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 by the authors.",
year = "2020",
month = oct,
doi = "10.3390/su12198140",
language = "English",
volume = "12",
journal = "Sustainability (Switzerland)",
issn = "2071-1050",
publisher = "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)",
number = "19",
}
