Fearless Steps Challenge: Phase III

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.