The Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) Workshop takes place at the Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, Oct.29-31, 2025 (including BioDCASE that focuses on bio-acoustics on Oct.29). DCASE is an annual challenge and international conference on computational audio scene analysis and environmental audio AI. Prof. Shuo Zhang participates in DCASE 2025 in Barcelona, where he serves as the co-chair of industrial liaisons and a visiting researcher at the MTG from October 20 to October 31.
The Freesound 20th anniversary celebration event also takes place in the same week on October 28, 2025. Freesound.org is a premier platform for crowd sourced audio and sound recordings / sound effects sharing platform since 2005. In recent years, it has become an indispensable resource for numerous audio datasets in deep learning and audio AI, including the FSD50k dataset. The Freesound Day will include talks by the Freesound team and members of the community. Participants will share their personal and professional experiences with the platform, as well as highlight various projects that have emerged around it. There is also a composition competition using Freesound.