[AUDITORY] Welcome to DCASE 2018 Challenge

[Tuomas Virtanen <tuomas.virtanen@xxxxxx>]

I am happy to announce that the evaluation campaign on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events DCASE 2018 is now open. The challenge will include the following tasks:

1) Acoustic scene classification
2) General-purpose audio tagging of Freesound content with AudioSet labels
3) Bird Audio Detection
4) Large-scale weakly labeled semi-supervised sound event detection in domestic environments
5) Monitoring of domestic activities based on multi-channel acoustics

Please find the task descriptions, challenge instructions and rules, and links to data (except data of Task 1 which will be released in few weeks) on the challenge web page

http://dcase.community

Baseline methods for the tasks will be added in one or two weeks. The tentative schedule of the challenge is as follows:

29th Mar: release of detailed task specifications, development datasets
6th Apr release of baseline systems
30th Jun: release of evaluation datasets
31st July: challenge submission deadline
15 Sep: challenge results
November: DCASE workshop in Surrey, UK

Welcome to participate!

On the behalf of the DCASE Organizers,
Tuomas Virtanen

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