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ISCApad Archive » 2021 » ISCApad #272 » Events » Other Events » (2021-08-30) The Fearless Steps Challenge(FSC) @ Interspeech 2021 |
ISCApad #272 |
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 by Chris Wellekens |
ISCApad INTERSPEECH February 2021 February 10, 2021 The Fearless Steps Challenge(FSC) TIMELINE: Challenge Start Date (Data Release): February 11th 2021 INTERSPEECH-2020 Papers dealing with FEARLESS STEPS deadline: April 2, 2021 Website Link: https://fearless-steps.github.io/ChallengePhase3/ Registration Link: https://bit.ly/3tAWDCK
CHALLENGE OVERVIEW The Fearless Steps Initiative by UTDallas-CRSS led to the digitization, recovery, and diarization of 19,000 hours of original analog audio data, as well as the development of algorithms to extract meaningful information from this naturalistic data resource. As an initial step to motivate a stream-lined and collaborative effort from the speech and language community, UTDallas-CRSS is hosting a series of progressively complex tasks to promote advanced research on naturalistic “Big Data” corpora. This began with ISCA INTERSPEECH-2019: 'The FEARLESS STEPS Challenge: Phase 1 (FSC-P1)'. This first edition of this challenge encouraged the development of core unsupervised/semi-supervised speech and language systems for single-channel data with low resource availability, serving as the “First Step” towards extracting high-level information from such massive unlabeled corpora. This was followed with ISCA INTERSPEECH-2020 which held the Special Session for FEARLESS STEPS Challenge: Phase 2 (FSC-P2), which focused on developing supervised learning strategies for the 100 hour Challenge Corpus.
Challenge Tasks in Fearless Steps Phase 3 (FSC-P3): 1. Speech Activity Detection (SAD) 2. Speaker Identification (SID) 3. Speaker Diarization: 3a. Track 1: Diarization using reference SAD 3b. Track 2: Diarization using system SAD 4. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR): 4a. Track 1: ASR using reference Diarization 4b. Track 2: Continuous stream ASR 5. Conversational Analysis (CONV): 5a. Track 1: Hotspot Detection 5b. Track 2: Extractive Summarization
Organizers John H.L. Hansen (john.hansen@utdallas.edu) Christopher Cieri (ccieri@ldc.upenn.edu) Omid Sadjadi (omid.sadjadi@nist.gov) Aditya Joglekar (aditya.joglekar@utdallas.edu) Meena Chandra Shekar (meena.chandrashekar@utdallas.edu) |
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