Subject: [AUDITORY] Welcome to DCASE 2018 Challenge From: Tuomas Virtanen <tuomas.virtanen@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 05:37:56 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>I am happy to announce that the evaluation campaign on Detection and Classi= fication of Acoustic Scenes and Events DCASE 2018 is now open. The challeng= e 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 dome= stic environments 5) Monitoring of domestic activities based on multi-channel acoustics Please find the task descriptions, challenge instructions and rules, and li= nks 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 tenta= tive 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 --=20 Tuomas Virtanen Tampere University of Technology tuomas.virtanen@xxxxxxxx +358401981308 http://www.cs.tut.fi/~tuomasv/