News

August 30th, 2023: The MISP 2023 challenge has been accepted by ICASSP 2024 Signal Processing Grand Challenge (SPGC). Please refer to https://2024.ieeeicassp.org/sp-grand-challenges for more details of ICASSP 2024 SPGC.

September 1st, 2023: The download link of training set and development set has been sent to the registered participants via email.

Introduction

Following the success of the first and second MISP challenge, we are pleased to announce the third MISP challenge. In light of the contributions of the front-end system and the finding that visual cues can aid human speech perception, the focus of the MISP 2023 challenge is on the audio-visual target speaker extraction (AVTSE) problem, which aims to extract the target speaker’s speech from mixtures containing various speakers and background noise. With both audio and visual data provided, the challenge considers the problem of audio-visual distant multi-microphone signal processing in everyday home TV scenarios, where several people are chatting while watching TV in the living room. The strong background noise, high overlaps ratios, and possible blurry videos are the challenges in MISP dataset. We warmly invite researchers from both academia and industry to participate in our challenge for promoting speech processing research using multi-modal information to cross the practical threshold of realistic applications in challenging scenarios.

MISP 2023 challenge features one task:

Audio-Visual Target Speaker Extraction

On this web site you will find everything you need to get started, including,

  • A task overview providing details of the motivation and recording set up
  • Descriptions of the provided data
  • Detailed descriptions of the evaluation criteria and the challenge rules
  • A guide to the baseline system
  • An instruction on how to submit your results
  • A download center with links to all tools and data packages

You can find a clear description of the task setting, dataset, and baseline in the overview paper

Planned Schedule(AOE Time)

  • ICASSP 2024 SPGC Proposal Acceptance Notification: August 30th, 2023
  • Training set and development set release: September 1st, 2023
  • Baseline system release: September 17th, 2023
  • Evaluation set release and leaderboard update for evaluation set: November 14th, 2023
  • Leaderboard freeze for evaluation set: December 14th, 2023 December 21st, 2023
  • System report submission: December 24th, 2023 December 31st, 2023
  • Result announcement: January 1st, 2024 January 8th, 2024
  • ICASSP 2024 Grand Challenge 2-page Papers Due (by invitation only): January 2nd , 2024 January 9th , 2024
  • ICASSP 2024 Grand Challenge 2-page Paper Acceptance Notification: January 16th, 2024 January 23rd, 2024
  • ICASSP 2024 Camera-ready Grand Challenge 2-page Papers Due: January 23rd, 2024 January 30th, 2024
  • ICASSP 2024 Grand Challenge OJ-SP Papers Due (by invitation only): June 19th, 2024

Organizers


Jun Du

University of Science and Technology of China


Chin-Hui LEE

Georgia Institute of Technology


Jingdong Chen

Northwestern Polytechnical University


Shinji Watanabe

Carnegie Mellon University


Sabato Marco Siniscalchi

Kore University of Enna


Odette Scharenborg

Delft University of Technology

Contact Us

For additional information, please email us at mispchallenge@gmail.com.