Subject: [AUDITORY] New data challenge: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CFew-shot_Bioacoustic_Event_Detection=E2=80=9D_?=at DCASE 2021 From: Dan Stowell <dan.stowell@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 17:22:33 +0100Dear all, Today we are announcing a new challenge in sound detection: "Few-shot bioacoustic event detection", just launched as a part of the DCASE 2021 challenges. ** The core idea: given only 5 examples of an animal call, can a system reliably detect that call type? ** Thanks to many collaborators, we publish new datasets, source code for 2 baseline systems (template matching and deep learning), and full information at: http://dcase.community/challenge2021/task-few-shot-bioacoustic-event-detection Dates: * 1st March: tasks and training data released * 1st June: evaluation data released * 15th June: deadline for submissions * 1st July: challenge results Please forward this to your students, colleagues - and anyone who might be able to help in the mission to create reliable detection of animal sounds! Best wishes, Dan Stowell on behalf of the organising team -- Dan Stowell Associate Professor of AI & Biodiversity * Tilburg University https://csai.nl/ * Naturalis Biodiversity Centre http://naturalis.nl/ * Jheronimus Academy of Data Sciences https://www.jads.nl/ * Queen Mary University of London http://machine-listening.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ http://www.mcld.co.uk/research/