Call for Task Proposals
Submission are now open for 2026
The BioDCASE organisers invite proposals to organise tasks for the 2026 BioDCASE Challenge. This follows the success first year of BioDCASE. Task proposals follow the same format and selection criterion as DCASE: 1) scientific and technological importance of a task, 2) quality, quantity, relevance, and readiness of data to be used, and 3) feasibility of the task proposal. In the interest of reducing the overlap and fragmentation of tasks, organisers may be requested to bring amendments to their task proposals before final acceptance.
See the 2025 tasks here for examples.
Proposal
Task bidders should submit a task proposal for review by the organising Committee. The proposal should be a maximum of two pages (pdf format) including the following information:
- Task name
- Coordinators
- Keywords (e.g. tagging, classification, detection, timestamps, scenes, events, birds, etc)
- Definition (one sentence, e.g. the detection of 7 different call types from two whale species)
- Short description (incl. research question the task is tackling, mention if it is a follow-up of previous years' task)
- Dataset description: development, evaluation (short description, how much data is already available and prepared, how long would it take to prepare the rest, mention if you allow external data/transfer learning or not)
- Evaluation method / metric
- Baseline system (2 sentences, planned method if you do not have one from previous challenge)
- Contact person (for main communication, website)
Submission
Potential task organisers should submit their task proposal by 8th January via email to both the general chair (Dan Stowell) D.Stowell@tilburguniversity.edu and task chair (Inês Nolasco) a.nolasco.ines@gmail.com.