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The IEEE Signal Processing Society is proud to announce the ninth edition of the Signal Processing Cup:
a forensic challenge related to synthetic speech attribution.
Goal
The possibility of manipulating digital multimedia objects is within everyone's reach. For instance, fake
synthetic speech audio tracks can be generated through a wide variety of available methods. These
range from simple cut-and-paste techniques, to complex neural networks. The goal of the challenge
is to design and develop a system for synthetic speech attribution. This means, given an audio recording
representing a synthetically generated speech track, to detect which method among a list of candidate ones
has been used to synthesize the speech.
Eligibility
Any team composed of one faculty member, at most one graduate student and 3 to 10 undergraduate
students is welcomed to join the open competition. At least 3 students must be IEEE Student Members.
Dataset
A dataset containing audio speech tracks generated with different speech synthesis techniques will be
distributed to the participants.
Prize
The three teams with highest performance in the open competition will be selected as finalists and will be
invited to participate in the final competition at ICASSP 2022. The champion team will receive a grand prize
of $5,000. The first and the second runner-up will receive a prize of $2,500 and $1,500, respectively,
in addition to travel grants and complimentary conference registrations.
Important Dates
| January 7, 2022 |
Competition webpage, Piazza forum and info |
| January 15, 2022 |
Dataset available |
| March 15, 2022 |
Team registration |
| March 31, 2022 |
Team final submission |
| April 7, 2022 |
Finalists announced |
| May 22-27, 2022 |
Final competition at ICASSP 2022 |
Additional Information
The challenge description is available in this document.
General information and resources are available on Piazza. To set up a free account, use the access code
'spcup2022' to join as a student the “SPCUP 2022: IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2022” class.
Organizers
The challenge is organized as a joint effort between the Image and Sound Processing Lab (ISPL) of the
Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) and the Multimedia and Information Security Lab (MISL) of the Drexel
University (Philadelphia, USA).
The ISPL team is represented by Dr. Paolo Bestagini (Assistant Professor), Dr. Fabio Antonacci (Assistant
Professor), Clara Borrelli (Ph.D. Student) and Davide Salvi (Ph.D. Student).
The MISL lab is represented by its founder Dr. Matthew C. Stamm (Associate Professor) and
Brian Hosler (Ph.D. student).
Contact
For any questions about the competition, please contact Paolo Bestagini, paolo.bestagini@polimi.it.
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