1. An acoustic monitoring system, comprising: an array of microphone devices; an acoustic image controller communicatively coupled to the array of microphone devices and configured to output acoustic image data based on a plurality of audio signals received from the array of microphone devices; and a computer audio vision (CAV) controller communicatively coupled to the acoustic image controller and including an event recognition mode configured to analyze at least a portion of the acoustic image data to detect one or more sound events within an observed scene, and to determine at least one condition causing the one or more sound events.