Dear all, We are pleased to announce two prize awards for the 2018 Bird Audio Detection challenge (running this year as part of the "DCASE" challenge community):
* £250: Highest-scoring open-source/reproducible method award * £250: Judges' award for the method considered by the judges to be the most interesting or innovative. This is to encourage development in the important and growing topic of automatic wildlife surveying. Please share this with anyone you know who might be interested - students, programmers, people who may be interested in bird sound. The URL is: http://dcase.community/challenge2018/task-bird-audio-detection The evaluation datasets will be published very soon, and then the crucial period begins - when people can test their detection systems against unseen data! Best wishes Dan Stowell, on behalf of the organising committee P.S. to learn more about the DCASE challenge and workshop see http://dcase.community/ -- Dan Stowell Senior Researcher Machine Listening Lab Centre for Digital Music Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road, London E1 4NS http://www.mcld.co.uk/research/ http://machine-listening.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/
