DiCOVA Challenge: Dataset, Task, and Baseline System for COVID-19 Diagnosis Using Acoustics
Ananya Muguli, Lancelot Pinto, R Nirmala, Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Prashant Krishnan, Prasanta Ghosh, Rohit Vishal Kumar, Shrirama Bhat, Srikanth Raj Chetupalli, Sriram Ganapathy, Shreyas Ramoji, Viral Nanda · 2021
The DiCOVA challenge aims at accelerating research in diagnosing COVID-19 using acoustics (DiCOVA), a topic at the intersection of speech and audio processing, respiratory health diagnosis, and machine learning.This challenge is an open call for researchers to analyze a dataset of sound recordings, collected from COVID-19 infected and non-COVID-19 individuals, for a two-class classification.These recordings were collected via crowdsourcing from multiple countries, through a website application.The challenge features two tracks, one focusing on cough sounds, and the other on using a collection of breath, sustained vowel phonation, and number counting speech recordings.In this paper, we introduce the challenge and provide a detailed description of the task, and present a baseline system for the task.