Subject: [AUDITORY] Making Sense of Sounds Data Challenge deadline soon: 30 Oct 2018 From: Mark D Plumbley <0000005fa4625f04-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 08:58:38 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear List, The submission deadline for the "Making Sense of Sounds" (MSoS) Data Challe= nge (http://cvssp.org/projects/making_sense_of_sounds/site/challenge/) is f= ast approaching: ** Submission deadline: 30 October 2018 ** Direct links: * Development & Evaluation data: http://cvssp.org/projects/making_sense_of_sounds/site/challenge/#download * Submission system: http://cvssp.org/projects/making_sense_of_sounds/site/challenge/#submissio= n_opened We have also provided a deep learning baseline:=20 http://cvssp.org/projects/making_sense_of_sounds/site/challenge/#baseline The task in the MSoS Challenge is to classify audio files as belonging to o= ne of five broad categories derived from human classification experiments: = Nature, Human, Music, Effects, or Urban. We call for machine systems to att= empt to replicate this human ability of category generalisation. The MSoS Challenge is jointly organized by University of Salford and Univer= sity of Surrey.=20 The results of the MSoS Challenge will be announced at the DCASE 2018 Works= hop: http://dcase.community/workshop2018/ For more information about the challenge and how to take part, see: http://cvssp.org/projects/making_sense_of_sounds/site/challenge/ Important dates: * Submission deadline: 30 Oct 2018 * Results announced: 19/20 Nov 2018 (at DCASE 2018 Workshop) Contact: MSoS.challenge@xxxxxxxx We look forward to your submission! Mark Plumbley On behalf of the MSoS Challenge organisers -- Prof Mark D Plumbley Professor of Signal Processing Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP)=20 University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK Email: m.plumbley@xxxxxxxx =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D DCASE 2018 Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and= Events 19 - 20 November 2018, Surrey, UK http://dcase.community/workshop2018/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D