Tue, 10 May, 10:00 - 12:00 UTC
Synthetic Speech Attribution
Finalist Teams
Team “Synthesizer"
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Supervisor: Dr. Shaikh Anowarul Fattah
Students: Bishmoy Paul, Md Awsafur Rahman, Najibul Haque Sarker, Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim
Team "Students Procrastinating"
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Supervisor: Tahsina Farah Sanam
Tutor: Naima Tasnim
Students: Farsia Kawsar Chwodhury, Imtiaz Ahmed, Md Boktiar Mahbub Murad, Md. Fahim Abid, Sayonto Khan, Swojan Datta, Tahsin Saad Chowdhury, Tasnim Nishat Islam, Utsab Saha, Voktho Das
Team “IITH"
Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
Supervisor: Sri Rama Murty Kodukula
Tutor: Sreekanth Sankala
Students: Chaitanya Varun Sahukari, Muhammed Fayis PV, Pranav Kumar Kota, Uday Kiran Reddy Tadipatri
The IEEE Signal Processing Society is proud to announce the ninth edition of the Signal Processing Cup: a forensic challenge related to synthetic speech attribution.
Goal
The possibility of manipulating digital multimedia objects is within everyone's reach. For instance, fake synthetic speech audio tracks can be generated through a wide variety of available methods. These range from simple cut-and-paste techniques, to complex neural networks. The goal of the challenge is to design and develop a system for synthetic speech attribution. This means, given an audio recording representing a synthetically generated speech track, to detect which method among a list of candidate ones has been used to synthesize the speech.
Eligibility
Any team composed of one faculty member, at most one graduate student and 3 to 10 undergraduate students is welcomed to join the open competition. At least 3 students must be IEEE Student Members.
Dataset
A dataset containing audio speech tracks generated with different speech synthesis techniques will be distributed to the participants.
Prize
The three teams with highest performance in the open competition will be selected as finalists and will be invited to participate in the final competition at ICASSP 2022. The champion team will receive a grand prize of $5,000. The first and the second runner-up will receive a prize of $2,500 and $1,500, respectively, in addition to travel grants and complimentary conference registrations.
Important Dates
| January 7, 2022 | Competition webpage, Piazza forum and info |
| January 15, 2022 | Dataset available |
| March 15, 2022 | Team registration Register your Team Here |
| March 31, 2022 | Team final submission |
| April 7, 2022 | Finalists announced |
| May 22-27, 2022 | Final competition at ICASSP 2022 |
Additional Information
The challenge description is available at this link.
General information and resources are available on Piazza at the following link:
https://piazza.com/ieee_sps/spring2022/spcup2022
To set up a free account, use the access code “spcup2022” to join as a student the “SPCUP 2022: IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2022” class.
Organizers
The challenge is organized as a joint effort between the Image and Sound Processing Lab (ISPL) of the Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) and the Multimedia and Information Security Lab (MISL) of the Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA).
The ISPL team is represented by Dr. Paolo Bestagini (Assistant Professor), Dr. Fabio Antonacci (Assistant Professor), Clara Borrelli (Ph.D. Student) and Davide Salvi (Ph.D. Student).
The MISL lab is represented by its founder Dr. Matthew C. Stamm (Associate Professor) and Brian Hosler (Ph.D. student).
Sponsor
This competition is sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society and MathWorks.
