@inproceedings{0ea605b15cdd47d0b981bd289ee431e7,
title = "Does a Quieter City Mean Fewer Complaints? The Sounds of New York City During Covid-19 Lockdown",
abstract = "The COVID-19 pandemic had an unprecedented effect in human activity and city landscapes. A very notorious transformation during this period was the change in noise levels and patterns across cities. Small scale studies have show this change in noise levels across different locations in the globe. In this work, we extend these studies by using historical audio data from the SONYC sensor network deployed in New York City. We exploit machine listening models to understand not only noise levels but also patterns, by performing a sound source presence analysis. Finally, we contrast our finding from the acoustic data with noise complaints to better understand the relationship between noise and our perception of it.",
keywords = "Covid-19, Sensor networks, machine listening",
author = "Mark Cartwright and Magdalena Fuentes and Charlie Mydlarz and Fabio Miranda and Bello, {Juan Pablo}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 IEEE.; 48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2023 ; Conference date: 04-06-2023 Through 10-06-2023",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10094968",
language = "English (US)",
series = "ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}