Connectionists: Stereo Audio Source Separation Evaluation Campaign: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

[Emmanuel Vincent]

                 *** FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***

                  1st Stereo Audio Source Separation
                         Evaluation Campaign

                    http://sassec.gforge.inria.fr/

                Participation deadline: April 13, 2007


Do you have an algorithm for source separation from few channels? Or are 
you interested in this challenging issue? Then you should take part in 
the first campaign for the evaluation of stereo audio source separation 
algorithms.

The task is to estimate from a two-channel speech or music mixture the 
contribution of each source on each channel, the number of sources being 
equal to three or more. This campaign complements recent evaluation 
initiatives conducted by Lucas Parra and the PASCAL network, which 
focused on different numbers of sources and channels.

Three types of mixtures are considered:
- instantaneous mixtures,
- synthetic convolutive mixtures,
- live recordings.

All contributions are welcome, including established, novel, blind or 
non-blind, two-channel or single-channel algorithms. The evaluation will 
be non-competitive: the results will be made available on the campaign 
website for listening and evaluated using multiple criteria, possibly 
proposed by the participants. The results will be summarized in a paper 
to be discussed at the ICA'07 conference (see http://www.ica2007.org/), 
during which the participants who wish to present a poster about their 
algorithm will also have the opportunity to do so. These posters will 
then be published on the campaign website.

For more information about the campaign and to download training/test 
sets, see
                    http://sassec.gforge.inria.fr/


Best regards,

Emmanuel Vincent, Hiroshi Sawada, Pau Bofill, Shoji Makino and Justinian 
Rosca