日本福祉工学会誌 論文 概要

日本福祉工学会誌 Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 76-81 (2023)

聴覚障害者のための深層学習を用いた警告音通知システムの開発

牧内 武,中山 英俊,力丸 彩奈,田中 秀登,北山 光也

Development of Hazardous Sound Notification System with Deep Learning for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Takeru MAKIUCHI, Hidetoshi NAKAYAMA, Ayana RIKIMARU, Hideto TANAKA and Mitsunari KITAYAMA

Deaf and hard of hearing people have difficulty noticing hazardous sounds around them. A device that enables the brain of a person to recognize the direction of a hazardous sound has already been developed. However, there is an issue that the device needs six seconds to recognize a hazardous sound. In this report, we describe our aim to develop a hazardous sound notification system which recognizes environmental sounds every second and notifies the deaf and hard of hearing people if a hazardous sound is detected. The teaching data is produced using four types of spectrograms converted from traveling noises, bicycle bell sounds, an ambulance siren and a fire engine siren. The accuracy of the deep learning model for each of the cases with log-scale spectrograms and mel-scale spectrograms are compared. Consequently, an accuracy of more than ninety percent is obtained using the deep learning model with mel-scale spectrograms.

Key words:Assistive technology, Deep learning, Signal processing, Spectrogram, The deaf and hard of hearing