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Oct 08, 2021
With the recent growth of remote and hybrid work, online meetings often encounter challenging audio contexts such as background noise, music, and echo. Accurate real-time detection of music events can help to improve the user experience in such scenarios, e.g., by switching to high-fidelity music-specific codec or selecting the optimal noise suppression model. In this paper, we present MusicNet -- a compact high-performance model for detecting background music in the real-time communications pipeline. In online video meetings, which is our main use case, music almost always co-occurs with speech and background noises, making the accurate classification quite challenging. The proposed model is a binary classifier that consists of a compact convolutional neural network core preceded by an in-model featurization layer. It takes 9 seconds of raw audio as input and does not require any model-specific featurization on the client. We train our model on a balanced subset of the AudioSet data and use 1000 crowd-sourced real test clips to validate the model. Finally, we compare MusicNet performance to 20 other state-of-the-art models. Our classifier gives a true positive rate of 81.3% at a 0.1% false positive rate, which is significantly better than any other model in the study. Our model is also 10x smaller and has 4x faster inference than the comparable baseline.
