Welcome to the Freesound General-Purpose Audio Tagging Challenge! The Freesound team from MTG-UPF and the Google Machine Perception team are excited to bring you this competition, where you are challenged to build models that can recognize 41 diverse categories of everyday sounds.
\n\nThis competition is a part of the DCASE2018 Challenge, an academic competition featuring five tasks related to the computational analysis of sound events and scenes. Results of the DCASE Challenge will be presented and discussed at the DCASE2018 Workshop. We encourage you to submit a paper to the DCASE Workshop describing your system for this competition. You can find more information about DCASE in the competition’s DCASE tab.
\n\nPlease feel free to ask your questions in this thread.
\n\nGood luck!
\n\nFrederic Font, Eduardo Fonseca (Freesound, MTG-UPF)
\nDan Ellis, Manoj Plakal (Google Machine Perception)
Welcome to the Freesound General-Purpose Audio Tagging Challenge! The Freesound team from MTG-UPF and the Google Machine Perception team are excited to bring you this competition, where you are challenged to build models that can recognize 41 diverse categories of everyday sounds.
\n\nThis competition is a part of the DCASE2018 Challenge, an academic competition featuring five tasks related to the computational analysis of sound events and scenes. Results of the DCASE Challenge will be presented and discussed at the DCASE2018 Workshop. We encourage you to submit a paper to the DCASE Workshop describing your system for this competition. You can find more information about DCASE in the competition’s DCASE tab.
\n\nPlease feel free to ask your questions in this thread.
\n\nGood luck!
\n\nFrederic Font, Eduardo Fonseca (Freesound, MTG-UPF)
\nDan Ellis, Manoj Plakal (Google Machine Perception)
First of all, thank you for organizing this very interesting challenge!
\nCould you increase submission limit to 5 per day?\nTwo submissions per day are ok if we all could afford to work daily on this challenge. There's so many features that we can potentially test. Those of us (including me), who have limited and unevenly distributed chunks of free time can not use that time efficiently. It's just slowing down research.
\nThanks!
Hey Konchar,
\n\nThanks for reaching out! We put a lot of effort and thought into how many submissions per day each competition should have. While 5 is appropriate for most competitions, we still think 2 is appropriate for this one given the nature of the dataset. The daily limit applies to all Kaggle competitions, and we hope that you find the multiple submissions per day to be of a benefit for your iterative research! Sorry we can't be of more help here.
", "rawMarkdown": "Hey Konchar,\n\nThanks for reaching out! We put a lot of effort and thought into how many submissions per day each competition should have. While 5 is appropriate for most competitions, we still think 2 is appropriate for this one given the nature of the dataset. The daily limit applies to all Kaggle competitions, and we hope that you find the multiple submissions per day to be of a benefit for your iterative research! Sorry we can't be of more help here.", "votes": null }, { "id": "313052", "postDate": "04/12/2018 18:09:29", "content": "Is it possible to make that 10 per week? That way people who have more time over weekends can use that time better.
\n\nAlso it would be interesting for kaggle team to do analysis for submissions. The above request is based on my assumption that different people have different days during which they are able to submit more rather than some hours where they are able to submit more.
", "rawMarkdown": "Is it possible to make that 10 per week? That way people who have more time over weekends can use that time better. \n\nAlso it would be interesting for kaggle team to do analysis for submissions. The above request is based on my assumption that different people have different days during which they are able to submit more rather than some hours where they are able to submit more.", "votes": null }, { "id": "313164", "postDate": "04/12/2018 21:12:29", "content": "Hi Aseem,
\n\nUnfortunately we do not have the ability to increase submissions to a weekly basis instead of a daily basis.
", "rawMarkdown": "Hi Aseem,\n\nUnfortunately we do not have the ability to increase submissions to a weekly basis instead of a daily basis.", "votes": null }, { "id": "345065", "postDate": "06/19/2018 06:24:35", "content": "Hi Eduardo,
\n\nThank you so much for putting that together, this is really exciting!
\n\nA quick question about the use of third-party code to build our model: in the competition rules, it is stated that as long as the code is licensed under an open-source initiative, it is ok tu use it. Does this also include the use of libraries such as Essentia ?
\n\nPlease let me know, thanks!\nDarius
", "rawMarkdown": "Hi Eduardo,\n\nThank you so much for putting that together, this is really exciting!\n\nA quick question about the use of third-party code to build our model: in the competition rules, it is stated that as long as the code is licensed under an open-source initiative, it is ok tu use it. Does this also include the use of libraries such as Essentia ?\n\nPlease let me know, thanks!\nDarius", "votes": null }, { "id": "345950", "postDate": "06/20/2018 19:42:39", "content": "Hi Darius,
\n\nglad to hear that you like the competition. Essentia is an open-source library and therefore it is ok to use it.\nhttp://essentia.upf.edu/documentation/index.html
", "rawMarkdown": "Hi Darius, \n\nglad to hear that you like the competition. Essentia is an open-source library and therefore it is ok to use it.\nhttp://essentia.upf.edu/documentation/index.html", "votes": null } ], "comments": [ { "id": 309756, "author_name": "konchar", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/05/2018 23:04:02", "content": "First of all, thank you for organizing this very interesting challenge!
\nCould you increase submission limit to 5 per day?\nTwo submissions per day are ok if we all could afford to work daily on this challenge. There's so many features that we can potentially test. Those of us (including me), who have limited and unevenly distributed chunks of free time can not use that time efficiently. It's just slowing down research.
\nThanks!
Hey Konchar,
\n\nThanks for reaching out! We put a lot of effort and thought into how many submissions per day each competition should have. While 5 is appropriate for most competitions, we still think 2 is appropriate for this one given the nature of the dataset. The daily limit applies to all Kaggle competitions, and we hope that you find the multiple submissions per day to be of a benefit for your iterative research! Sorry we can't be of more help here.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 313052, "author_name": "anshbansal", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/12/2018 18:09:29", "content": "Is it possible to make that 10 per week? That way people who have more time over weekends can use that time better.
\n\nAlso it would be interesting for kaggle team to do analysis for submissions. The above request is based on my assumption that different people have different days during which they are able to submit more rather than some hours where they are able to submit more.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 313164, "author_name": "addisonhoward", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/12/2018 21:12:29", "content": "Hi Aseem,
\n\nUnfortunately we do not have the ability to increase submissions to a weekly basis instead of a daily basis.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 345065, "author_name": "darius522", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/19/2018 06:24:35", "content": "Hi Eduardo,
\n\nThank you so much for putting that together, this is really exciting!
\n\nA quick question about the use of third-party code to build our model: in the competition rules, it is stated that as long as the code is licensed under an open-source initiative, it is ok tu use it. Does this also include the use of libraries such as Essentia ?
\n\nPlease let me know, thanks!\nDarius
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 345950, "author_name": "eduardofonseca", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/20/2018 19:42:39", "content": "Hi Darius,
\n\nglad to hear that you like the competition. Essentia is an open-source library and therefore it is ok to use it.\nhttp://essentia.upf.edu/documentation/index.html
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "308976": "Welcome to the Freesound General-Purpose Audio Tagging Challenge! The Freesound team from MTG-UPF and the Google Machine Perception team are excited to bring you this competition, where you are challenged to build models that can recognize 41 diverse categories of everyday sounds.\n\nThis competition is a part of the DCASE2018 Challenge, an academic competition featuring five tasks related to the computational analysis of sound events and scenes. Results of the DCASE Challenge will be presented and discussed at the DCASE2018 Workshop. We encourage you to submit a paper to the DCASE Workshop describing your system for this competition. You can find more information about DCASE in the competition’s DCASE tab.\n\nPlease feel free to ask your questions in this thread. \n\nGood luck!\n\nFrederic Font, Eduardo Fonseca (Freesound, MTG-UPF) \nDan Ellis, Manoj Plakal (Google Machine Perception)", "309756": "First of all, thank you for organizing this very interesting challenge!