SoundDesc: Cleaned and Group-Filtered Splits

This upload contains dataset splits of SoundDesc [1] and other supporting material for our paper:

Data leakage in cross-modal retrieval training: A case study [arXiv] [ieeexplore]

In our paper, we demonstrated that a data leakage problem in the previously published splits of SoundDesc leads to overly optimistic retrieval results.
Using an off-the-shelf audio fingerprinting software, we identified that the data leakage stems from duplicates in the dataset.
We define two new splits for the dataset: a cleaned split to remove the leakage and a group-filtered to avoid other kinds of weak contamination of the test data.

SoundDesc is a dataset which was automatically sourced from the BBC Sound Effects web page [2]. The results from our paper can be reproduced using clean_split01 and group_filtered_split01.

If you use the splits, please cite our work:

Benno Weck, Xavier Serra, "Data Leakage in Cross-Modal Retrieval Training: A Case Study," ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10094617.

@INPROCEEDINGS{10094617,
  author={Weck, Benno and Serra, Xavier},
  booktitle={ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, 
  title={Data Leakage in Cross-Modal Retrieval Training: A Case Study}, 
  year={2023},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1-5},
  doi={10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10094617}}

References:

[1] A. S. Koepke, A. -M. Oncescu, J. Henriques, Z. Akata and S. Albanie, "Audio Retrieval with Natural Language Queries: A Benchmark Study," in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, doi: 10.1109/TMM.2022.3149712.

[2] https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/