This paper presents our investigations on automatic
daily sound recognition using ensemble methods. Two
benchmark datasets RWCP-DB and Sound Dataset are utilized
for this purpose. A set of acoustic features for daily sound
recognition is identified and used. First, sound classification is
carried out using individual classifiers on both datasets. As the
classification accuracy comes out lower with base classifiers as
compared to the results reported in literature, ensemble
methods are then employed for classification task. The
ensemble methods prove to be effective and robust in
recognizing daily sounds as they yield high recognition rates.
The classification accuracies achieved by our proposed setup of
ensemble methods are higher than those mentioned in
literature for the two daily sound datasets.