The DCASE Steering Group has reviewed the task proposals for DCASE 2026 Challenge and selected the following tasks:
Task 1
Heterogeneous Audio Classification
Task 2
Noise-aware Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection for Machine Condition Monitoring
Task 3
Semantic Acoustic Imaging for Sound Event Localization and Detection from Spatial Audio and Audiovisual Scenes
Task 4
Spatial Semantic Segmentation of Sound Scenes
Task 5
Audio-Dependent Question Answering
Task 6
Audio Moment Retrieval from Long Audio
Task 7
Domain-Agnostic Incremental Learning for Audio Classification
More details will be available by end of January on the website.