The Second Cadenza Signal Processing Challenge to Improve Music for Those with Hearing Loss

[Trevor Cox]

The 2nd Cadenza Challenge (CAD2) is now launched. There are two tasks

1.    Improving the intelligibility of lyrics for pop/rock music while not harming audio quality.

2.    Rebalancing the level of instruments within a classical music ensemble (e.g. string quartet) to allow personalised mixes.

Submission deadline: January 2025

The 2nd Cadenza Challenge (CAD2) is part of the IEEE SPS Challenge Program. The SPS are funding cash prizes for the best entrants.

Why are these challenges important?

Hearing loss causes various problems such as quieter music passages being inaudible, poor and anomalous pitch perception, difficulties identifying and picking out instruments, and problems hearing out lyrics. While hearing aids have music programmes, the effectiveness of these is mixed.

More details: http://cadenzachallenge.org/

To stay up to date please sign up for the Cadenza Challenge's Google group https://groups.google.com/g/cadenza-challenge

Please feel free to circulate this invitation to colleagues who you think may be interested.