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            *** SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***

                Community-Based Signal Separation
                          Evaluation Campaign
                             (SiSEC 2018)

                        https://sisec.inria.fr/

Deadline for submission of separation results: April, 1st 2018


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A SPECIAL SISEC SESSION WILL TAKE PLACE AT LVA/ICA 2018

There are two options for participating in the conference and
presenting your SiSEC contribution:

1. An extended abstract (2 pages max) may be submitted to Antoine Liutkus:

    antoine [dot] liutkus [at] inria [dot] fr

Abstracts will not be included in the LVA/ICA 2018 proceedings, but will
give you the opportunity to present your work at the conference.

2. A regular paper may be submitted on the SiSEC track of LVA/ICA (see dates
below)

See more information at http://cvssp.org/events/lva-ica-2018/


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Following the success of the six previous editions, we are glad to
announce the launch of the SiSEC 2018 campaign for the evaluation of
source separation algorithms. This campaign is open to anyone, whether you
are an expert or a newcomer, and whether your algorithm relies on prior
information or not.

This year, SiSEC features two audio tasks:

1) Professionally produced music recordings (MUS),
Following the success of the previous editions, we worked a lot to improve
the music separation task. This year's edition includes:

- An augmented dataset, with 100 full songs for training, 50 songs for
  test, all mixed professionally in stereo, for anyone to use.
- This year, all the data is encoded in the Native Instruments STEMS
  format, yielding only 4.4gb for 150 tracks, while maintaining trans-
  parent quality.
- A set of Python tools to load, parse, and use the dataset easily. An
  easy-to-use standalone utility is also provided to convert the data to
  WAV if needed.
- Baseline scripts implementing oracle methods, including Ideal Binary
  Mask, Ideal Ratio Mask, and Multichannel Wiener Filter.
- Submission will be automated, and analysis plots will be generated
  automatically.

2) Asynchronous recordings of speech mixtures (ASY), runs with the same
datasets and metrics as SiSEC 2015.


Please visit https://sisec.inria.fr/ for further instructions.


IMPORTANT DATES

Feb 4th 2018 - LVA/ICA 2018 Submission deadline
Feb 7th 2018 - LVA/ICA Full paper upload deadline
Mar 1st 2018 - Submission system for SiSEC open
Apr 1st 2018 - Submission of separation results
Apr 6th 2018 - LVA/ICA Camera-ready papers deadline
Apr 8th 2018 - Publication of separation results
Jul 2nd 2018 - LVA/ICA 2018 Summer school
Jul 3rd 2018 - LVA/ICA 2018 Conference begins


Please register to the mailing list sisec[at]inria.fr at
https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/info/sisec

If you have any question, do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,

SiSEC 2018 Chair
Antoine Liutkus
antoine [dot] liutkus [at] inria [dot] fr

PS: We are sorry in case of cross posting.