New data challenge: “Few-shot Bioacoustic Event Detection” at DCASE 2021

We’re pleased to announce a new data challenge: “Few-shot Bioacoustic Event Detection“, a new task within the “DCASE 2021” data challenge event.

We challenge YOU to create a system to detect the calls of birds, hyenas, meerkats and more.

This is a “few shot” task, meaning we only ever have a small number of examples of the sound to be detected. This is a great challenge for machine-learning students and researchers: it is not yet solved, and it is great practical utility for scientists and conservationists monitoring animals in the wild.

We are able to launch this task thanks to a great collaboration of people who contributed data from their own projects. These newly-curated datasets are contributed from projects recorded in Germany, USA, Kenya and Poland.

The training and validation datasets are available now to download. You can use them to develop new recognition systems. In June, the test sets will be made available, and participants will submit the results from their systems for official scoring.

Much more information on the Few-shot Bioacoustic Event Detection DCASE 2021 page.