The DCASE Steering Group invites proposals to organize tasks in the DCASE 2026 Challenge. The goal for DCASE 2026 Challenge is to foster gradual technology improvements through continuity of tasks, but also to bring novel research directions into the field, while keeping the number of tasks suitably low.

The full program for DCASE Workshop 2025 is now online. A total of 48 papers were accepted out of 72 submissions (66% acceptance rate). 43% of the papers are challenge related. All accepted papers are now also available for download from the website.

This is an open call for proposals of DCASE Workshops to be organized in 2026. Potential workshop organizers are invited to send a short (e.g. 2-4 pages) proposal by email to romain.serizel@loria.fr by October 15th 2025.

The DCASE2025 Challenge results are now published. Results can be found on task-wise results pages.

DCASE2025 Challenge received 277 submission entries

Evaluation datasets for all tasks of the DCASE2025 Challenge are now available. At the same time, submission system for the challenge submissions has been opened. Before submitting, please read carefully the submission instructions about constructing the submission package.

We are pleased to announce DCASE2025 Challenge opened. Task descriptions are now available, and the development datasets have been released.

The Call for Papers for DCASE Workshop 2025 has just been published. The deadline for abstract submissions is the 4th of July, while final submission deadline is on the 11th of July, ~2 weeks after the publicaton of the challenge results. You can find all the details here.

The DCASE Steering Group has reviewed the task proposals for DCASE 2025 Challenge and selected six tasks.

The DCASE Steering Group invites proposals to organize tasks in the DCASE 2025 Challenge. The goal for DCASE 2025 Challenge is to foster gradual technology improvements through continuity of tasks, but also to bring novel research directions into the field, while keeping the number of tasks suitably low.

The DCASE research community has grown rapidly in recent years, and the number of academic publications from the community has increased steadily over the last decade. A page to collect information about academic publications related to DCASE research topics has been added to our site.

The DCASE2024 Challenge results are now published. Results can be found on task-wise results pages.

DCASE2024 Challenge received 321 submission entries

Evaluation datasets for all tasks of the DCASE2024 Challenge are now available. At the same time, submission system for the challenge submissions has been opened. Before submitting, please read carefully the submission instructions about constructing the submission package.

We are pleased to announce DCASE2024 Challenge opened. Task descriptions are now available, and the development datasets have been released.

This is an open call for proposals of DCASE Workshops to be organized in 2025. Potential workshop organizers are invited to send a short (e.g. 2-4 pages) proposal by email to romain.serizel@loria.fr by June 15th 2024.

The DCASE Steering Group has reviewed the task proposals for DCASE 2024 Challenge and selected ten tasks.

Presentation videos have been published in our YouTube channel

We're happy to announce the DCASE2023 Workshop Best Paper award.

The DCASE Steering Group invites proposals to organize tasks in the DCASE 2024 Challenge. The goal for DCASE 2024 Challenge is to foster gradual technology improvements through continuity of tasks, but also to bring novel research directions into the field, while keeping the number of tasks suitably low.

The DCASE2023 Challenge results are now published. Results can be found on task-wise results pages.

DCASE2023 Challenge received 428 submission entries

Evaluation datasets for all tasks of the DCASE2023 Challenge are now available. At the same time, submission system for the challenge submissions has been opened. Before submitting, please read carefully the submission instructions about constructing the submission package.

An invitation for you to become a sponsor of the 8th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events, DCASE 2023, held in Tampere, Finland September 21-22.

This is a public call for Expressions of Interest in joining the DCASE Steering Group. Those who are interested in becoming members of the SG are asked to submit their expression of interest which consists of a CV and a short position statement (e.g. one paragraph) to the chair of the current SG tuomas.virtanen@tuni.fi by 30th April 2023.

This is an open call for proposals of DCASE Workshops to be organized in 2024 and 2025. Potential workshop organizers are invited to send a short (e.g. 2-4 pages) proposal by email to tuomas.virtanen@tuni.fi by May 15th 2023.

The DCASE Steering Group has reviewed the task proposals for DCASE 2023 Challenge and selected seven tasks.

The DCASE Steering Group invites proposals to organize tasks in the DCASE2023 Challenge. The goal for DCASE2023 Challenge is to foster gradual technology improvements through continuity of tasks, but also to bring novel research directions into the field, while keeping the number of tasks suitably low.

Workshop registration is now open.

This year we will also offer travel grants.

The DCASE2022 Challenge results are now published. Results can be found on task-wise results pages.

DCASE2022 Challenge received 410 submission entries

Evaluation datasets for all tasks of the DCASE2022 Challenge are now available. At the same time, submission system for the challenge submissions has been opened. Before submitting, please read carefully the submission instructions about constructing the submission package.

The Call for Papers for DCASE Workshop 2022 has just been published. Furthermore, the organizing committee of the DCASE Workshop 2022 has decided that the event will take place in presence from 3rd to 4th of November with talks being broadcasted.

We are pleased to announce DCASE2022 Challenge opened. Task descriptions are now available, and the development datasets have been released.

The DCASE Steering Group has reviewed the task proposals for DCASE 2022 Challenge and selected six tasks.

We're happy to announce the DCASE 2021 Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards.

The full program for DCASE Workshop 2021 is now online. A total of 47 papers were accepted out of 67 submissions (70% acceptance rate) coming from more than 10 countries all over the world. 49% of the papers are challenge related. All accepted papers are now also available for download …

The DCASE Steering Group invites proposals to organize tasks in the DCASE 2022 Challenge. The goal for DCASE 2022 Challenge is to foster gradual technology improvements through continuity of tasks, but also to bring novel research directions into the field, while keeping the number of tasks suitably low.

DCASE 2022 workshop will be held in Nancy, France, and DCASE 2023 workshop held in Tampere, Finland.

The DCASE Datalist is a DCASE Community effort to collect curated meta-information about DCASE related datasets into a uniform structure.

Workshop registration is now open.

The DCASE2021 Challenge results are now published for all tasks. Results can be found on task-wise results pages.

DCASE2021 Challenge received 394 submission entries

Evaluation datasets for all tasks of the DCASE2021 Challenge are now available. At the same time, submission system for the challenge submissions has been opened. Before submitting, please read carefully the submission instructions about constructing the submission package.

This is to announce that the Call for Papers for DCASE Workshop 2021 has already been published. Also, we'd like to take this opportunity to announce that the organization committee of DCASE Workshop 2021 has finally decided that DCASE Workshop 2021 will be a fully virtual event that will last …

This is an open call for proposals of DCASE Workshops to be organized in 2022 and 2023. Potential workshop organizers are invited to send a short (e.g. 2-4 pages) proposal by email to tuomas.virtanen@tuni.fi by May 15th 2021.

We are pleased to announce DCASE2021 Challenge opened. Task descriptions are now available, and the development datasets have been released.

The DCASE Steering Group has reviewed the task proposals for DCASE 2021 Challenge and selected six tasks.

A Slack workspace for the DCASE community has been launched!! dcase.slack.com

Please join the workspace via this link.

Note that the current invitation link is valid for 15 days (created 14.4.2021). Once the invitation link is expired, we will switch to creating a new invitation on …

We're happy to announce the DCASE 2020 Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards.

DCASE 2020 Challenge will offer awards for open-source and innovative methods. These awards are meant to encourage open science and reproducibility, and therefore the Reproducible system award is directly based on these criteria. In addition, through our Judges’ award we want to encourage novel and innovative approaches.

The DCASE Steering Group invites proposals to organize tasks in the DCASE 2021 Challenge. The goal for DCASE 2021 Challenge is to foster gradual technology improvements through continuity of tasks, but also to bring novel research directions into the field, while keeping the number of tasks suitably low.

Workshop registration is now open.

The DCASE2020 Challenge results are now published for each task. Results can be found on task-wise results pages.

The paper submission deadline for the DCASE2020 workshop has been extended to 6 July 2020.

IMPORTANT: We no longer have separate paper submission and revision deadlines. July 6th is the only and final deadline for submitting your complete manuscript. There will not be any extension after this date and you …

DCASE2020 Challenge received 473 submission entries

As the safety and well-being of all participants is our top priority, the DCASE 2020 Workshop organizers have decided to convert the workshop to a full virtual style. The current schedule for submission, review, notification, and workshop date will be maintained. We look forward to seeing you in a virtual …

Evaluation datasets for all tasks of the DCASE2020 Challenge are now available. At the same time, submission system for the challenge submissions has been opened. Before submitting, please read carefully the submission instructions about constructing the submission package.

The DCASE 2020 Workshop Organizers wish to announce that after careful consideration and discussion, we have decided to change the date of DCASE workshop to November 2-4. The purpose of rescheduling is to avoid the overlap with the INTERSPEECH 2020 (Oct. 25-29) and to make it easy to participate in …

We are pleased to announce DCASE2020 Challenge opened. Task descriptions are now available and the development datasets have been released.

The DCASE Steering Group has reviewed the task proposals for DCASE 2020 Challenge and selected six tasks.

We're happy to announce the DCASE 2019 Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards.

DCASE 2019 Challenge will offer awards for open-source and innovative methods. These awards are meant to encourage open science and reproducibility, and therefore the Reproducible system award is directly based on these criteria. In addition, through our Judges’ award we want to encourage novel and innovative approaches.

The DCASE Steering Group invites proposals to organize tasks in the DCASE 2020 Challenge. The goal for DCASE 2020 Challenge is to foster gradual technology improvements through continuity of tasks, but also to bring novel research directions into the field, while keeping the number of tasks suitably low.

Workshop registration is now open.

The DCASE2019 Challenge results are now published for each task. Results can be found on task-wise results pages.

The submission deadline for the DCASE2019 workshop has been extended to July 16 2019, 23:59 PST. Note that the abstract and paper deadlines are now both on the same date.

DCASE2019 Challenge received 311 submission entries

The challenge deadline is 10 June 2019 (AOE). The technical report in the submission package must contain at least title, authors, and abstract. An updated camera-ready version of the technical report can be submitted separately until 17 June 2019 (AOE).

DCASE 2019 Challenge will offer awards for open-source and innovative methods. These awards are meant to encourage open science and reproducibility, and therefore the Reproducible system award is directly based on these criteria. In addition, through our Judges’ award we want to encourage novel and innovative approaches.

Evaluation datasets for all tasks of the DCASE2019 Challenge are now available. At the same time, submission system for the challenge submissions has been opened. Before submitting, please read carefully the submission instructions about constructing the submission package.

Public leaderboards have been launched for all three subtasks in task 1 of DCASE2019 Challenge. The leaderboards are organized through Kaggle InClass competitions, and they are meant to serve as a development tool for participants during the development.

We are pleased to announce DCASE2019 Challenge opened. Task descriptions are now available and some of the tasks have released their development datasets. The rest of the development datasets and baseline systems will be released in 1-2 weeks depending on task.

This is an open call for proposals of DCASE Workshops to be organized in 2020 and 2021. Potential workshop organizers are invited to send a short (e.g. 2 pages) proposal by email to tuomas.virtanen@tuni.fi by April 7th 2019.

We invite proposals to organize tasks in DCASE 2019 Challenge. The goal for DCASE 2019 Challenge is to have both some continuity of tasks and also bring novel research directions into it. For this, we aim to include about 25% new tasks, which are unrelated to the previous year's ones.

The full workshop program is now online.

The deadline for early registration is only a few days away: 20. October 2018!

The DCASE2018 Challenge results are now published for each task. Results can be found on task-wise results pages.

Workshop registration is now open.

DCASE2018 Challenge received 223 entries from 81 teams.

On popular request, the submission deadline for workshop papers was extended to 6. August 2018.

Please note that the deadline for challenge submissions remains the same (31. July 2018).

The workshop paper submission system is now open and accepting submissions.

Evaluation datasets for all tasks of the DCASE2018 Challenge are now available. At the same time, submission system for the challenge submissions has been opened. Before submitting, please read carefully the submission instructions about constructing the submission package.

Public leaderboards have been launched for all three subtasks in task 1 of DCASE2018 Challenge. The leaderboards are organized through Kaggle InClass competitions, and they are meant to serve as a development tool for participants during the development.

We are pleased to announce DCASE2018 Challenge opened. Task descriptions are now available and most of the tasks have released their development datasets. The baseline systems will be released in 1-2 weeks depending on task.

A new release date has been set for the DCASE Challenge tasks. We are working to get development datasets and baseline systems for tasks ready by the 30th of March 2018.

The evaluation dataset with the reference data for the DCASE2016 Challenge Task 2 has been published.

Based on the successful evaluation campaigns on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events organized in 2013, 2016, and 2017, DCASE Challenge will be organized again this year. The challenge will include the following tasks:

• Task 1, Acoustic Scene Classification
• Task 2, General-purpose audio tagging of Freesound content with …

DCASE has now register own domain, dcase.community, and we will move gradually all DCASE activity under this new domain. The aim is to have one constant entry point to all DCASE related information, and allow easier collaboration between event organizers.

Workshop presentation slides, posters and video recordings of the oral sessions have been published.

The evaluation datasets with the reference data for the DCASE2017 Challenge Task 4 has been published.

DCASE2017 Workshop proceedings have been published.

The evaluation datasets with the reference data for the DCASE2016 Challenge Task 1 and 3 has been published.

The Google keynote titled "General-Purpose Sound Event Recognition" (scheduled on Day 1 of the Workshop), will be presented by Shawn Hersey from Google Research. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the original presenter, Dan Ellis, is not available for the keynote. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Full technical program for the DCASE2017 Workshop can be found here.

DCASE2017 Challenge results will be presented at WASPAA 2017 in a special demo session with two posters. From the DCASE2017 organizers, Tuomas Virtanen and Aleksandr Diment will be presenting the results.

If you are attending WASPAA, come and discuss challenge tasks and results, as well as the future directions of …

Altogether 27 papers were accepted to be presented in the workshop. The list of accepted papers can be accessed here.

Full proceedings will be available shortly before the Workshop.

The DCASE2017 challenge results are now published. Here are task specific pages with detailed evaluation results:

Scenes Task 1 Alarms Task 2 Events Task 3 Large-scale Task 4

Authors will have now the possibility to update their technical report to include evaluation results. The deadline for the camera-ready report is …

The DCASE2017 Workshop registration is now open for authors and non-authors. You can access it here. The registration fee is 150 Euros, including lunch and coffee breaks.

At least one author per accepted paper must register for the Workshop before 20th October 2017

Thursday 16.11.2017

9:00 - 18:00

Lunch and coffee breaks included

Highlights:

• Invited talk: Daniel P. W. Ellis, Google
• Technical sessions
• DCASE Challenge results analysis

Friday 17.11.2017

9:00 - 12:30

Morning coffee break included

Highlights:

• Invited talk: Josh McDermott, MIT
• Technical sessions
• DCASE Challenge special …

DCASE2017 Challenge collected a nice amount of participants this year, totalling 74 submitted entries. We have started evaluating the submissions, and the challenge results will be released on the website on 15 of September 2017.

After publication of results, authors will have the possibility to update their technical report to …

DCASE2017 Challenge has been approved to be IEEE AASP Challenge.

Evaluation dataset for Task 1 is now published, and the download links can be found in the download page and task description page.

The baseline system is also updated to support Task 1 evaluation dataset. In case you are using the provided baseline system, there is no need to manually …

A paper about the DCASE2017 Challenge tasks will be published in the upcoming DCASE2017 Workshop. Please cite this paper when referring to the DCASE2017 Challenge in your publications about DCASE2017:

Evaluation datasets for Tasks 2, 3 and 4 are now published, and the download links can be found in the download page and task description pages. The baseline system is also updated to support these evaluation datasets.

Evaluation dataset for Task 1 will be published in one week.

Make sure …

DCASE Forum post

There are two important updates on Task 4's data.

1. Verifying downloaded data

Thanks to the inquiry sent by Justin Salamon, we are providing two methods for participants to check that their development set was downloaded properly, not only in terms of the number of files but …

It has been brought to our attention that the Task 3 reference annotations do not always correspond to audible sound events. To address this issue, we implemented a verification of the data as follows.

The selected sound classes for the task are: brakes squeaking, car, children, large vehicle, people speaking …

Baseline for DCASE2017 Challenge Task 4 has been published in Github:

Development dataset for DCASE2017 Challenge Task 4 has been published in Github:

Note that strong labels for testing (development) and baseline will be available soon in the same repository.

Development datasets for DCASE2017 Challenge tasks 1,2, and 3 have been published. In addition to this, the baseline system for these tasks has been published. Baseline system can be access from Github:

The baseline system will download the needed datasets automatically.

You can access development datasets …

The DCASE2017 website now public. This website collects all the information about the DCASE2017 Challenge and DCASE2017 Workshop.

Challenge

Development datasets and the baseline system for the Challenge will be released on 15th of March. Until then, there might still be minor modifications to the task definitions.

Workshop

This year …

The reference data for evaluation dataset has been published and can be accessed through archive.org now.

The reference data for evaluation dataset has been published and can be accessed through Zenodo now.

TUT Acoustic scenes 2016, evaluation dataset (2.5 GB)

DCASE2016 workshop proceedings have been published.

DCASE2016 challenge results have been published.

The main results are presented in task description pages. In addition to this, there are result pages with extended results and submission information. Direct links to the results pages can be found below.

Please update your technical reports and send them by 15th of …

Thank you all for submitting to DCASE Challenge!

We have received many submissions, as you can see from following table:

We have sent confirmations to at least the submitting author. If …

The submission deadline for DCASE2016 challenge has been extended to 7th of July 2016.

A paper describing DCASE2016 datasets and baseline systems for tasks 1 and 3 has been accepted for publication at the 2016 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2016).

In publications using these datasets, cite as:

The submission deadline for DCASE2016 workshop has been extended to 23th of June 2016, 23:59:59 GMT

The submission system for DCASE2016 workshop papers is now open. You can access on the workshop page and also here.

We are pleased to announce the publication of the evaluation datasets for all challenge tasks. The datasets can be accessed through download page. The evaluation datasets contain only audio, annotations for the datasets will be published after challenge.

Submission information can be found here.

A paper describing in detail calculation of various metrics for sound event detection has been published in Applied Sciences Journal.

Toolboxes for evaluating sound event detection systems and for visualization of the annotations / system outputs are now also available at DCASE tools page.

We are pleased to announce the publication of the development datasets for all challenge tasks. The datasets can be accessed through download page.

The baseline systems for tasks are also now public. They also can be accessed through download page.

The discussion group for the DCASE is now open. Please join the Google group DCASE discussions to be up to date with the challenge related discussions.

The challenge website is now public. We will keep updating and modifying some information on these pages. Take them as preliminary information in this stage.