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The 11th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events, DCASE 2026, will be held in Boston on 28-29 October. It is co-organized by Bose Corporation, MIT, and Tufts University.
DCASE Workshop 2026 will be co-located with the BioDCASE Workshop (October 23, online workshop), which focuses on Bio-acoustics, and the SANE Workshop (October 30 at MIT), which is a one-day event gathering researchers and students in speech and audio from the Northeast of the American continent. The SANE Workshop alternates between Boston and New York City every year.
As in previous years, the workshop is organized in conjunction with the DCASE challenge. We aim to bring together researchers from many different universities, research organizations and companies with an interest in the topic, and provide the opportunity for scientific exchange of ideas and opinions.
We invite submissions on the topics of computational analysis of acoustic scenes and sound events, including but not limited to:
Tasks in computational environmental audio analysis
Multimodal environmental audio analysis and generation
Methods for computational environmental audio analysis
Resources, applications, and evaluations of computational environmental-audio analysis
We strongly encourage reproducible research with open-source code and open data, though it is not mandatory.
Important notice for challenge participants: Description of systems submitted to the DCASE2026 Challenge is expected to be expanded from the challenge technical report submissions to comply with the format of a scientific paper. This generally means describing the scientific novelty and including more discussions such as ablation studies for additional modules in your method.
The paper submission portal is now open at: https://dcase.community/workshop2026/submission
Important Dates (midnight AoE)
DCASE 2026 Technical Program Chairs
Frederic Font, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Marko Stamenovic, Bose Corp.
Bashima Islam, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Mark Cartwright, New Jersey Institute of Technology
DCASE 2026 General Chairs
Shuo Zhang, Bose Corp./Tufts University
Anna Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paris Smaragdis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
If you have any questions, please contact Frederic Font at frederic.font@xxxxxxx.