Detection and Classification of
Acoustic Scenes and Events

DCASE2024 Workshop

October 2024, Tokyo, Japan

DCASE 2023 Workshop is the ninth workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events, organized in conjunction with the DCASE challenge. The workshop aims to provide a venue for researchers working on computational analysis of sound events and scene analysis to present and discuss their results. We aim to bring together researchers from many different universities and companies interested in the topic and provide the opportunity for scientific exchange of ideas and opinions. The technical program will include invited speakers on computational everyday sound analysis and recognition and oral and poster presentations of accepted papers.

Workshop info

DCASE2024 Challenge

The organizing committee members are pleased to welcome you to participate in the ninth edition of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events DCASE 2024. Building up on the success of the previous editions, this year's evaluation continues supporting the development of computational scene and event analysis methods by comparing different approaches using a common publicly available dataset. The continuous effort in this direction sets the milestones of development and anchors the current performance for further reference. Challenge participants are welcome to present their work during a special poster session within the DCASE 2024 Workshop.

Tasks

Data-Efficient Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification

First-Shot Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection for Machine Condition Monitoring

Audio and Audiovisual Sound Event Localization and Detection with Source Distance Estimation

Sound Event Detection with Heterogeneous Training Dataset and potentially Missing Labels

Few-shot Bioacoustic Event Detection

Automated Audio Captioning

Sound Scene Synthesis

Language-Based Audio Retrieval

Language-Queried Audio Source Separation

Acoustic-based traffic monitoring

Challenge info

We invite all researchers that are interested or working on aspects of environmental sound classification and detection to share ideas, questions and opinions with their peers through the DCASE Community.

This area of research is now developing at a rapid pace, and special sessions on the topic are commonly encountered at international signal processing conferences such as ICASSP or EUSIPCO, as well as special issues in renown journals like IEEE TASLP. As organizers of DCASE Challenge and Workshop, we want to contribute to this dynamic field of research by bringing together researchers from academic and industrial background.

We want to offer a platform for discussion of the different perspectives and approaches, from algorithm development to practical applications and their commercial value. We hope to support the development of computational scene and event analysis methods by providing public datasets and the opportunity to continuously compare different approaches on the same datasets, using consistent performance measures.

Join the discussion group for announcements from organizers of DCASE Challenge and DCASE Workshop, and to communicate with other members through the email list. We encourage everyone to open discussions on related topics and answer others' questions.

To contact the DCASE organizers, you can send an email to dcase.challenge@gmail.com.