Call for Expressions of Interest on AASP Challenge

[Dan Stowell <dan.stowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear List,
[Apologies for cross-posting]

On behalf of the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical 
Committee, I am happy to announce a new challenge entitled: "Detection 
and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events".

If you are interested in the challenge, and would like to participate in 
a discussion phase ahead of the formal call, please visit the challenge 
web page below and subscribe to the aasp-challenge mailing list.

On behalf of the challenge organisers,

Dan Stowell

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                 Call for Expressions of Interest

                          AASP Challenge:
      Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events

                     Discussion: Jul-Sep 2012
                           Call: Nov 2012
                       Deadline: 31 March 2013
     Presentation: At WASPAA 2013 (Oct 2013, New Paltz, NY, USA)

     http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/sceneseventschallenge/

This AASP Challenge will be a public challenge for the evaluation of the 
performance of systems for the detection and classification of acoustic 
events and audio scenes. The challenge includes a set of tasks for the 
detection and classification of acoustic scenes and events and its goal 
is to provide a focus of attention for the scientific community in 
developing systems for computational auditory scene analysis (CASA) that 
will encourage sharing of ideas and improve the state of the art, 
potentially leading to the development of systems that achieve 
performance closer to that of humans.

This challenge will help the research community move forward by 
providing a focus for better defining the specific tasks, and will also 
provide incentive for researchers to actively pursue research on this 
field. Finally, it will offer a reference point for future systems 
developed to perform similar tasks and it will provide the community
with a high quality database for future research.

There will be a discussion phase where potential participants are 
invited to contribute their ideas, ending on 30th September 2012. The 
deadline for code submission is 31st March 2013. Results will be 
presented at a special session in WASPAA 2013 (http://www.waspaa.com/); 
participants are invited to present a poster at a special session. Also, 
authors of novel work are encouraged to submit their work as a regular 
paper at WASPAA 2013.

For more details as well as a copy of the full proposal of the challenge 
please visit:
http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/sceneseventschallenge/
If you are interested in the challenge, please subscribe to the 
aasp-challenge mailing list in order to participate in the discussion 
phase and to receive news about the challenge (details can be found on 
the page above).

This challenge is part of the AASP challenge series, see also:
http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/technical-committees/list/audio-tc/aasp-challenges/

Please feel free to circulate this e-mail to others you think might be 
interested.

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