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ISCApad Archive » 2021 » ISCApad #279 » Academic and Industry Notes » The Second DiCOVA Challenge announcement |
ISCApad #279 |
| Friday, September 17, 2021 by Chris Wellekens |
4-13 The Second DiCOVA Challenge announcement
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The Second DiCOVA Challenge announcement
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Can sound samples serve as acoustic biomarkers of COVID-19? If yes, an acoustics based COVID-19 diagnosis can provide a fast, contactless and inexpensive testing scheme, with potential to supplement the existing molecular testing methods, such as RT-PCR and RAT. The DiCOVA Challenge Series is an exploration of ideas to find answers to this question.
We are excited to share with you the announcement on the Second DiCOVA Challenge on Diagnosing COVID-19 using Acoustics. The challenge features the following three parallel tracks and one fusion track.
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Track-1: Breathing Sound Samples
Track-2: Cough Sound Samples
Track-3: Speech Sound Samples
Track-4: Fusion. Here participants can use any combination of above sound categories.
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The task in all the tracks requires building a binary classifier for COVID-19 detection using only sound samples. As was the case in the first DiCOVA challenge, a dataset and a baseline system will be released, and a leaderboard style platform for evaluation using a blind test set will be provided to all participants.
For more information please check out the below links.
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Event website: https://dicovachallenge.github.io/Registration Details: https://dicovachallenge.github.io/#register Flyer: https://dicovachallenge.github.io/docs/Second_DiCOVA_challenge2022_flyer.pdf Looking forward to your participation in the challenge.
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The challenge timeline is chosen to suit the paper submission deadline (1st Oct. 2021) of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing (ICASSP), a flagship conference of the IEEE (https://2022.ieeeicassp.org/).(If not done already), we request you to express your interest in participating in this challenge by filling the form at the link below by 14th Aug (midnight GMT) with tentative details on Abstract, Title, and Authors. This information will help us in proposing a Special Session at ICASSP 2022. Form Link: https://forms.office.com/r/rkEduk9FzR |
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