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🐶 Barkopedia Challenge Dataset

🔗 Barkopedia Website

📦 Dataset Description

This challenge provides a labeled dataset of dog bark audio clips for understanding the arousal and valence of emotional state from sound.

📁 Current Release

• Training Set

  • Includes:
    • train/husky and train/shiba contain all training audio clips for each of the two breeds
    • husky_train_labels.csv and shiba_train_labels.csv contain labels for all training audio clips
  • Total: 1000 training audio clips (500 for each breed)

• Test Set

  • To be released in June
  • Will contain 200 audio clips
    • 50% public (100 clips) — used for live leaderboard updates
    • 50% private (100 clips) — used for final evaluation

🔖 Labels

Each clip is annotated with one arousal and one valence category.

🎯 Arousal Categories (arousal)

• Low
• Medium
• High

🌍 Valence Categories (valence)

• Negative
• Neutral
• Positive

🚀 Submission & Leaderboard

All competition data, result submission, and the live leaderboard are hosted on Hugging Face.
If you don’t have a Hugging Face account yet, please register here.

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📌 Stay tuned for the test set release in June and leaderboard launch!

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