Dear MARMAM Community, Here are some news about the 8th session of the International Workshop on Detection, Classification, Localization, and Density Estimation of marine mammals using passive acoustics (2018 DCLDE Workshop) that will be held from 4 to 8 June 2018, in Paris, FRANCE. 1. Following some requests, we have decided to postpone the deadline for abstract submission; it is now April 18, 2018! You will have some more days to finalize your abstract and to send it to us. Then, the notification for acceptance will be given at the end of this month, so you will have time to prepare your venue to Paris. 2. The challenge to automatically detect acoustic events is already open. You can download the dataset right now and participate to this challenge! Try to be the winner and to win the 1st prize of 150 euros! 3. The 2 thematic tutorial sessions will be simultaneously held on Monday, June 4th from 8:30 am to 6 pm. So please select one: - Machine learning (Deep learning) for Bioacoustics : learning representation, organized by Prof. H. Glotin, LIS, University of Toulon, France and DYNI team. Detection signal processing based versus Autoencoder ; Learning representation on Monophonic versus Stereophonic recordings ; practical examples and exercises on PC with TensorFlow will be given with the BOMBYX long term submarine stereo dataset : http://sis.univ-tln.fr/~glotin/SABIOD/VAMOS/ , mostly on weak transient biosignals (distant Physeter and others). - A primer on density estimation from passive acoustic data, organized by Dr. L. Thomas, Dr. T. Marques, and Dr. D. Harris, St Andrews, UK No extra fees are required, but you need to have a pass to access the University. So, if you want to participate in a session, please send right now an email to Olivier Adam, olivier.adam@upmc.fr You can have all information directly on our website: http://sabiod.univ-tln.fr/DCLDE/ Sincerely, Olivier ADAM ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.