ICASSP 2025丨Signal Processing Grand Challenge

ICASSP 2025 Signal Processing Grand Challenge 已经开始征集 Proposal，2024年7月8日截至，今年的相关日期相对于往年提前不少，不过也留出了更充足的评测时间，欢迎大家投稿报名！

网址: https://2025.ieeeicassp.org/call-for-gc-proposals/

ICASSP（International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing）是IEEE信号处理学会（Signal Processing Society）的学术年会，是全世界规模最大、最全面的声学、语音和信号处理及其应用方面的国际会议，也是语音技术领域最具影响力的顶级国际会议。

ICASSP 2025 将于2025年4月6日在印度海得拉巴举办，内容涵盖语音识别、语音合成、语音增强、自然语言处理、机器学习等多个领域。

Prospective SPGC organizers should include the following items (please limit it to 4 pages):

1. One-page call for participation;
2. Signal Processing Grand Challenge description;
3. Description of the dataset provided for training and evaluation, evaluation criteria and methodology, guidelines for participants, and the full challenge schedule including the submission deadline;
4. List of potential participants (indicate confirmed participants if applicable).

• Participation: Grand Challenge organizers should facilitate participation, communication, and impact. Grand Challenge organizers or their PhD students are not allowed to participate in the challenge they are organizing.
• Dataset: If applicable to the challenge, organizers should make the competition datasets available to the participants. Organizers are encouraged to provide at least one training dataset with both input and ground truth and one test dataset without the ground truth—the latter to be used for final assessment.
• A secondary test set for evaluation, which is not available to participants, is also encouraged to highlight the generalizability of their approach. It is encouraged to also include a standard algorithm/model to serve as a baseline and for illustrative purposes.
• Evaluation: How the results are evaluated and ranked should be announced along with the challenge description. During the competition, the participants and organizers have to follow the challenge’s criteria carefully. The evaluation methods should be unbiased and transparent to all participants. Regular update of ranking is also encouraged via management platforms such as Kaggle or Piazza. The provision of baseline approaches and evaluation metrics is encouraged. Each SPGC would have around 2-3 months to run the competition and rank/select winning teams.
• SPGC Papers: The challenge organizers will present an overview of their SPGC at ICASSP 2025 during a dedicated session and submit a 2-page paper for the ICASSP proceedings. The organizers will also be invited to submit an extended challenge overview paper to the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (OJ-SP). Both papers should describe the challenge context, data sets, and the challenge results. In addition, the challenge organizers will invite upto five top-ranked submissions of their SPGC to submit a 2-page and present it at ICASSP 2025 (accepted papers will be published in the ICASSP proceedings. The review process is coordinated by the challenge organizers and the SPGC chairs). All 2-page papers should be covered by an ICASSP registration and should be presented in person at the conference. The teams that present their work at ICASSP in person are also invited to submit a full paper about their work to OJ-SP.
• All submitted OJ-SP papers will undergo peer review by the OJ-SP Editorial Board, in collaboration with the IEEE SPS CDC committee and ICASSP-2025 GC Chairs. OJ-SP is a fully open-access publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, with a scope encompassing the full range of technical activities of the Society.
• SPGC Sessions: SPGC organizers should organize an SPGC session in the ICASSP 2025 program. This session should include an overview presentation of the organisers (including the announcement of the winners), followed by the SPGC paper presentations (oral or poster) of the top-5 participants, typically followed by a panel or open discussion.

• The ICASSP SPGCs are supported by the SPS Challenges and Data Collections Committee. For more information about the SPS CDC and examples of previous SPS Challenges, visit their website
• All proposals should be submitted online through this link .
• Questions regarding Challenge Sessions may be directed to: challenges@2025.ieeeicassp.org