IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2019

IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2019

Search & Rescue with Drone-Embedded Sound Source Localization

The IEEE Signal Processing Society is proud to announce the sixth edition of the Signal Processing Cup: an exciting audio-based drone-embedded search and rescue challenge.

Goal: Building a system capable of localizing a sound source based on audio recordings made with an 8- channel microphone array embedded in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

Eligibility: Any team composed of one faculty member, at most one graduate student and 3-10 undergraduate students is welcomed to join the open competition.

Dataset: A novel dataset of UAV-embedded microphone-array recordings is provided for the challenge.

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 2019. 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.

• Register: SP Cup 2019 Registration Page
• Detailed Information on the Competition: SP Cup 2019 Document
  
• Additional details (on Piazza)

Important Dates

• Data release: November 14, 2018
• Submission deadline: March 11, 2019
• Finalists announcement: March 20, 2019
• Final @ICASSP: May 12-17, 2019

Finalist Teams

Organizers

IEEE Technical Committee for Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing (AASP)
IEEE Autonomous System Initiative

Sponsor