Dan Ellis dpwe@google.com
v1 2017-03-06
The file ontology.json contains the current definition of the AudioSet ontology, a hierarchical set of audio event classes.
The json file describes a list of sound entity objects. Each object contains the fields:
id: The machine identifier for this class, a short sequence like
/m/0dgw9r. Where possible, these are based on Knowledge Graph IDs,
which were originally used in
Freebase.
name: The Display Name that refers to the class. Should be unique and
unambiguous. Several classes have one or more synonyms included in their
display names, for example "Male speech, man speaking".
description: A description of the class in a few lines.
citation_uri: A pointer to any text used as the basis for the
description. Frequently points to a Wikipedia page.
positive_examples: A list of compact URLs to segments within YouTube files
that provide confirmed positive examples of this class. Each entry is of
the form youtu.be/8uI9H5jGRV8?start=30&end=40, meaning the example is the
10 seconds starting 30 seconds in to the the YouTube video whose ID is
8uI9H5jGRV8.
child_ids: A list of the id fields for any classes that children of this
class in the class hierarchy.
restrictions: A list that can include the following values:
abstract for a class that is principally a container within the
hierarchy, but will not have any explicit examples for itself. "Human
voice" is an abstract class. Abstract classes will always have children.
blacklist for classes that have been excluded from rating for the time
being. These are classes that we found were too difficult for raters to
mark reliably, or for which we had too much trouble finding candidates, or
which we decided to drop from labeling for some other reason.
The ontology is made available by Google Inc. under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.