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## DCASE 2025 Audio Question and Answering

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  <img src="img-dcase.png" width="45%">
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  The proposed audio question answering (AQA) dataset
with three categories: Bioacoustics QA (BQA), Temporal Soundscapes QA (TSQA), and Complex QA (CQA)
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- [DCASE 2025 Task Description](https://dcase.community/challenge2025/task-audio-question-answering)
- [Audio QA Model Baseline](https://huggingface.co/PeacefulData/2025_DCASE_AudioQA_Baseline)
- [Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database](https://whoicf2.whoi.edu/science/B/whalesounds/index.cfm)
  - "Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the New Bedford Whaling Museum."




### Preparing the Task 5 Training and Dev Data

```
git clone https://huggingface.co/datasets/PeacefulData/2025_DCASE_AudioQA_Official # clone the questions
cd 2025_DCASE_AudioQA_Official
bash download_dcase_25_task5_challenge_audio.sh # download the audio data part 1 will access via Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database's official link 
```

### Eval Set
```
cd 2025_DCASE_AudioQA_Official
git pull # in the root 2025_DCASE_AudioQA_Official
bash eval_download_aqa_2025.sh # download the audio data part 1 will access via Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database's official link 
```

[DCASE 2025 Submission Guideline and Report](https://dcase.community/challenge2025/task-audio-question-answering#submission)

### References

- [Multi-Domain Audio Question Answering Toward Acoustic Content Reasoning in The DCASE 2025 Challenge](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07365)
  - Our technical report for DCASE 2025 challenge, feel free to refer this bib for reference. 

```bib
@article{aqa2025multi,
  title={Multi-Domain Audio Question Answering Toward Acoustic Content Reasoning in The DCASE 2025 Challenge},
  author={Yang, Chao-Han Huck and Ghosh, Sreyan and Wang, Qing and Kim, Jaeyeon and Hong, Hengyi and Kumar, Sonal and Zhong, Guirui and Kong, Zhifeng and Sakshi, S and Lokegaonkar, Vaibhavi and Nieto, Oriol and Duraiswami, Ramani and Manocha, Dinesh and Kim, Gunhee and Du, Jun and Valle, Rafael and Catanzaro, Bryan},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.07365},
  year={2025},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07365}
}
```