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Fearless Steps Challenge: Phase III


Contact Us

For questions about the challenge (i.e., evaluation plan, data, software), please contact: FearlessSteps@utdallas.edu

For questions about the website (i.e., registration, submission), please contact: opensat_poc@nist.gov

For the Fearless Steps Challenge discussion please visit our Google Group. https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/forum/#!forum/fsc


Overview

The Fearless Steps Initiative by UTDallas-CRSS led to the digitization, recovery, and diarization of 19,000 hours of original analog audio data from the NASA Apollo-11 Mission, as well as the development of algorithms to extract meaningful information from this multichannel naturalistic data resource. To motivate a stream-lined and collaborative effort from the speech and language community, UTDallas-CRSS has hosted a series of progressively complex tasks to promote advanced research on naturalistic “Big Data” corpora. This began with Fearless Steps Challenge: Phase I that focused on unsupervised/semi-supervised speech and language solutions for single-channel data with low resource availability and followed with Fearless Steps Challenge: Phase II which focused on developing supervised learning strategies for the 100 hour Challenge Corpus.

For hosting the Fearless Steps Challenge: Phase III (FSC P3), UTDallas-CRSS is partnering with OpenSAT. The FSC P3 focuses on the development of single-channel supervised learning strategies with an aim to test system generalizability to varying channel and mission data . All FSC P3 evaluation activities (registration, system output submission, scoring, and leaderboard display) will be conducted through web-interfaces hosted by OpenSAT.
Tentative Schedule:

February 17 - March 14, 2021: Registration Period

February 17, 2021: Training and Development Data Release

March 1, 2021: Evaluation Plan Release

March 8, 2021: Evaluation Data Release

March 8, 2021: System Submission Opens

March 15, 2021: Baseline Description and Results

March 26, 2021: INTERSPEECH-2021 Paper Registration deadline

March 31, 2021: Final System Submission Deadline

April 1, 2021: Final Results Announced for all Tasks

August 30 - September 3, 2021: INTERSPEECH-2021

Instructions and Help

For general instructions and help with the OpenSAT web platform, please visit Help.

To register for this challenge, please follow the instructions at: https://fearless-steps.github.io/ChallengePhase3/registration.

To prepare and submit system outputs for this challenge, please follow the instructions at: https://fearless-steps.github.io/ChallengePhase3/submission
Leaderboards will be available soon.