Subject: [AUDITORY] DCASE 2018 Challenge preliminary announcement From: Tuomas Virtanen <tuomas.virtanen@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:03:25 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events DCASE 2018 Chall= enge Based on the successful evaluation campaigns on Detection and Classificatio= n of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) organized in 2013, 2016, and 2017, = I am happy to announce that DCASE Challenge will be organized again this ye= ar. 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 dome= stic environments 5) Monitoring of domestic activities based on multi-channel acoustics The tentative schedule of the 2018 challenge is as follows: 21st Mar: release of detailed task specifications, development datasets and= baseline systems 30th Jun: release of evaluation datasets 31st July: challenge submission deadline 15 Sep: challenge results November: DCASE workshop in Surrey, UK Please find short descriptions of the tasks and information about the organ= izing teams from the challenge web site http://dcase.community Detailed specifications and data will be added to the web page by 21st Marc= h and the launch of the challenge will also be then announced on mailing li= sts. Welcome to participate! On the behalf of DCASE Organizers, Tuomas Virtanen --=20 Tuomas Virtanen Tampere University of Technology tuomas.virtanen@xxxxxxxx +358401981308 http://www.cs.tut.fi/~tuomasv/