DCASE 2024 Challenge tasks

[Annamaria Mesaros]

Dear colleagues, 

The DCASE 2024 Challenge tasks are now public. Head to the website for a short description of the tasks, and choose your favourite! The official challenge launch will be on 1st of April, when the complete task descriptions, datasets and baselines should be ready.

This year we have the following tasks: 

Task 1: Data-Efficient Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification
Task 2: First-Shot Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection for Machine Condition Monitoring
Task 3: Audio and audiovisual sound event localization and detection with source distance estimation
Task 4:  Sound Event Detection with Heterogeneous Training Dataset and Potentially Missing Labels
Task 5: Few-shot Bioacoustic Event Detection
Task 6: Automated Audio Captioning
Task 7: Sound Scene Synthesis
Task 8: Language-Based Audio Retrieval
Task 9: Language-Queried Audio Source Separation
Task 10: Acoustic-based traffic monitoring

The schedule of the challenge is the following: 

1 April 2024  Challenge opening: datasets and baseline methods published
1 June 2024  Evaluation set release
15 June 2024  Challenge submission deadline
30 June 2024  Challenge results published

More information: https://dcase.community/challenge2024/ 

Annamaria Mesaros