Subject: [AUDITORY] DCASE Applied & Industrial Research (AIR) Workshop 2026: Call for Contribution From: Aleksandra Teng Ma <tengofma@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:20:35 -0400--000000000000c3376506598548c7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *** Apologies for cross postings *** *** Please forward this message to other interested colleagues and community members *** Applied & Industrial Research (AIR) is a new one-day workshop co-located with DCASE 2026 <https://dcase.community/workshop2026/>, taking place 27 October 2026 at MIT, Boston, USA (the day before the main DCASE workshop). DCASE =E2=80=94 Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events <https://dcase.community/> is the leading forum for research on computational audio analysis: acoustic scene classification, sound event detection and localization, audio tagging, anomalous sound detection, audio captioning, and related tasks (for the full technical scope, see the call for papers <https://dcase.community/workshop2026/call-for-papers>). While the main workshop focuses on scientific advances and benchmark-driven research, AIR provides a dedicated venue for discussing how DCASE research is being deployed and used in practice. AIR brings together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry who are building, deploying, or evaluating real-world audio and acoustic AI systems. If you've taken a DCASE-related method from research into real-world application, or encountered challenges that benchmarks don't capture, this is the venue to share that experience. *Format* Unlike a traditional paper session, AIR is built around technical talks, live demonstrations, and hands-on tutorials. There are no paper submissions. We're looking for contributions that go beyond benchmark performance and share insights into broader systems, engineering decisions, deployment experience, and emerging practical challenges. Contributions take one of three forms: - Keynote (~25 min + Q&A) =E2=80=94 A technical deep dive into a topic, = sharing insights or lessons learned from building real-world systems. - Demo / Show & Tell (~15 min) =E2=80=94 A live on-stage demonstration o= f a working system, with optional continued demo in a dedicated space afterwards. Hardware, embedded systems, prototypes, and interactive applications all encouraged. - Tutorial (~25 min + Q&A) =E2=80=94 A practical, hands-on introduction = to a method, tool, or workflow that attendees can apply in their own work. *Topics of Interest* - Deployed systems and industrial case studies across DCASE tasks - Engineering challenges: data collection, annotation, and evaluation in the wild - Embedded and edge audio AI - Robustness, reliability, and performance beyond benchmarks - Multimodal and foundation-model applications for audio - Emerging application areas - Lessons learned, negative results, and open challenges We especially encourage contributions that expose engineering trade-offs or identify unsolved problems for the community. *Submission* Please submit your proposed contribution using this link <https://tally.so/r/lbX4jk>. Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis. The call remains open until 1 October 2026 or until all slots are filled. Registration for AIR is included with DCASE 2026 registration; standalone AIR registration is also available at a discounted rate. Venue and travel details at the DCASE 2026 website <https://dcase.community/workshop2026/>. *Organisers* Nicolas Turpault (Sonaid) Mikolaj Kegler (Bose) Sile Yin (Bose) Tornike Karchkhadze (Apple) Shuo Zhang (Bose) --000000000000c3376506598548c7 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;ma= rgin-bottom:0pt"><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif= ;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;= font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-alig= n:baseline">*** Apologies for cross postings ***</span></p><p dir=3D"ltr" s= tyle=3D"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style=3D"f= ont-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-colo= r:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;fo= nt-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">*** Please forward th= is message to other interested colleagues and community members ***</span><= /p><p dir=3D"ltr" style=3D"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0p= t"><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0= ,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-e= ast-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b= r></span></p><p style=3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0p= x 10px;text-align:justify;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans&q= uot;,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style=3D"= box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Applied & Industrial Research (A= IR)</span>=C2=A0is a new one-day workshop co-located with=C2=A0<a href=3D"h= ttps://dcase.community/workshop2026/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"nofollow" st= yle=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:border-box;backg= round-color:transparent;border-bottom:2px dotted rgb(187,187,187);border-to= p-color:rgb(187,187,187);border-right-color:rgb(187,187,187);border-left-co= lor:rgb(187,187,187)">DCASE 2026</a>, taking place=C2=A0<span style=3D"box-= sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">27 October 2026 at MIT, Boston, USA</spa= n>=C2=A0(the day before the main DCASE workshop).</p><p style=3D"font-size:= 14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;color:rgb= (51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Hel= vetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a href=3D"https://dcase.community/" target=3D"_bl= ank" rel=3D"nofollow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,51,51);box= -sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;border-bottom:2px dotted rg= b(187,187,187);border-top-color:rgb(187,187,187);border-right-color:rgb(187= ,187,187);border-left-color:rgb(187,187,187)">DCASE =E2=80=94 Detection and= Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events</a>=C2=A0is the leading forum= for research on computational audio analysis: acoustic scene classificatio= n, sound event detection and localization, audio tagging, anomalous sound d= etection, audio captioning, and related tasks (for the full technical scope= , see the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://dcase.community/workshop2026/call-for-pap= ers" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"nofollow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color= :rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;border-bo= ttom:2px dotted rgb(187,187,187);border-top-color:rgb(187,187,187);border-r= ight-color:rgb(187,187,187);border-left-color:rgb(187,187,187)">call for pa= pers</a>). While the main workshop focuses on scientific advances and bench= mark-driven research,=C2=A0<span style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;font-weight= :700">AIR provides a dedicated venue for discussing how DCASE research is b= eing deployed and used in practice.</span></p><p style=3D"font-size:14px;bo= x-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;color:rgb(51,51,= 51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,= Arial,sans-serif">AIR brings together researchers and practitioners from bo= th academia and industry who are building, deploying, or evaluating real-wo= rld audio and acoustic AI systems. If you've taken a DCASE-related meth= od from research into real-world application, or encountered challenges tha= t benchmarks don't capture, this is the venue to share that experience.= </p><p style=3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;te= xt-align:justify;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",&quo= t;Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></p><span style=3D"f= ont-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",Helve= ticaNeue-Light,"Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue",= Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:= rgb(51,51,51);padding-top:65px"><font size=3D"4"><b>Format</b></font></span= ><p style=3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-= align:justify;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","H= elvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Unlike a traditional paper = session, AIR is built around technical talks, live demonstrations, and hand= s-on tutorials. There are no paper submissions. We're looking for contr= ibutions that go beyond benchmark performance and share insights into broad= er systems, engineering decisions, deployment experience, and emerging prac= tical challenges.</p><p style=3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margi= n:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Ope= n Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Contrib= utions take one of three forms:</p><ul style=3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:b= order-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family= :"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-seri= f"><li style=3D"box-sizing:border-box"><span style=3D"box-sizing:border-box= ;font-weight:700">Keynote (~25 min + Q&A)</span>=C2=A0=E2=80=94 A techn= ical deep dive into a topic, sharing insights or lessons learned from build= ing real-world systems.</li><li style=3D"box-sizing:border-box"><span style= =3D"box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Demo / Show & Tell (~15 min)= </span>=C2=A0=E2=80=94 A live on-stage demonstration of a working system, w= ith optional continued demo in a dedicated space afterwards. Hardware, embe= dded systems, prototypes, and interactive applications all encouraged.</li>= <li style=3D"box-sizing:border-box"><span style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;fo= nt-weight:700">Tutorial (~25 min + Q&A)</span>=C2=A0=E2=80=94 A practic= al, hands-on introduction to a method, tool, or workflow that attendees can= apply in their own work.</li></ul><div style=3D"color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);fon= t-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><fon= t color=3D"#333333" face=3D"Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sa= ns-serif"><br></font></div><span style=3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-= box;font-family:"Open Sans",HelveticaNeue-Light,"Helvetica N= eue Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Gra= nde",sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(51,51,51);padding-top:65px">= <font size=3D"4"><b>Topics of Interest</b></font></span><ul style=3D"font-s= ize:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(= 51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helv= etica,Arial,sans-serif"><li style=3D"box-sizing:border-box">Deployed system= s and industrial case studies across DCASE tasks</li><li style=3D"box-sizin= g:border-box">Engineering challenges: data collection, annotation, and eval= uation in the wild</li><li style=3D"box-sizing:border-box">Embedded and edg= e audio AI</li><li style=3D"box-sizing:border-box">Robustness, reliability,= and performance beyond benchmarks</li><li style=3D"box-sizing:border-box">= Multimodal and foundation-model applications for audio</li><li style=3D"box= -sizing:border-box">Emerging application areas</li><li style=3D"box-sizing:= border-box">Lessons learned, negative results, and open challenges</li></ul= ><p style=3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-= align:justify;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","H= elvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">We especially encourage con= tributions that expose engineering trade-offs or identify unsolved problems= for the community.</p><span style=3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;= font-family:"Open Sans",HelveticaNeue-Light,"Helvetica Neue = Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande&= quot;,sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(51,51,51);padding-top:65px"><fon= t size=3D"4"><b><div><span style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.1;p= adding-top:65px"><font size=3D"4"><b><br></b></font></span></div>Submission= </b></font></span><p style=3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0= px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open S= ans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Please sub= mit your proposed contribution using=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://tally.so/r/lbX= 4jk" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"nofollow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color= :rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;border-bo= ttom:2px dotted rgb(187,187,187);border-top-color:rgb(187,187,187);border-r= ight-color:rgb(187,187,187);border-left-color:rgb(187,187,187)">this link</= a>.</p><p style=3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px= ;text-align:justify;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",&= quot;Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Submissions are revie= wed on a rolling basis. The call remains open until=C2=A0<span style=3D"box= -sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">1 October 2026</span>=C2=A0or until all= slots are filled.</p><p style=3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;marg= in:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Op= en Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Regist= ration for AIR is included with DCASE 2026 registration; standalone AIR reg= istration is also available at a discounted rate. Venue and travel details = at the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://dcase.community/workshop2026/" target=3D"_bl= ank" rel=3D"nofollow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,51,51);box= -sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;border-bottom:2px dotted rg= b(187,187,187);border-top-color:rgb(187,187,187);border-right-color:rgb(187= ,187,187);border-left-color:rgb(187,187,187)">DCASE 2026 website</a>.</p><p= style=3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-ali= gn:justify;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helv= etica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></p><span style=3D"font-si= ze:14px;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",HelveticaNe= ue-Light,"Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvet= ica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(51= ,51,51);padding-top:65px"><font size=3D"4"><b>Organisers</b></font></span><= p style=3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-al= ign:justify;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Hel= vetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Nicolas Turpault (Sonaid)</p>= <p style=3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-a= lign:justify;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","He= lvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Mikolaj Kegler (Bose)</p><p = style=3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-alig= n:justify;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helve= tica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Sile Yin (Bose)</p><p style=3D"= font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:justify= ;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue= ",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Tornike Karchkhadze (Apple)</p><p style= =3D"font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:jus= tify;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica = Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Shuo Zhang (Bose)</p></div> --000000000000c3376506598548c7--