The challenge is organized by the Audio research group of Tampere University of Technology, by the QMUL Centre for Digital Music and by IRCCYN, and by the University of Surrey, under the auspices of the Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing (AASP) technical committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Tampere University of Technology
Department of Signal Processing, Audio Research Group
Tuomas Virtanen
Annamaria Mesaros
Coordinator of Acoustic scene classification, Sound event detection in real life audio
Responsibilities: challenge documentation, metrics

Toni Heittola
Coordinator of Acoustic scene classification, Sound event detection in real life audio
Responsibilities: webmaster, baseline systems, challenge results

Queen Mary University of London
Centre for Digital Music
Emmanouil Benetos
Coordinator of Sound event detection in synthetic audio

Peter Foster
Coordinator of Domestic audio tagging

IRCCYN
Team ADTSI
Mathieu Lagrange
Coordinator of Sound event detection in synthetic audio

Grégoire Lafay
Coordinator of Sound event detection in synthetic audio

University of Surrey
Centre for vision, speech and signal processing
Mark D. Plumbley
Coordinator of Domestic audio tagging
