I am happy to announce that the evaluation campaign on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events DCASE 2018 is now open. 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 domestic environments 5) Monitoring of domestic activities based on multi-channel acoustics Please find the task descriptions, challenge instructions and rules, and links 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 tentative 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 -- Tuomas Virtanen Tampere University of Technology tuomas.virta...@tut.fi +358401981308 http://www.cs.tut.fi/~tuomasv/
