Terms

1. A team consists of one team leader and up to five additional team members.

2. All team members must be affiliated with academia or industry.

3. The team leader must hold a permanent academic position (e.g. professor), a lead position in industry, or at least a postdoc.

4. A team leader can be registered for a maximum of three teams, while the team member cannot be part of more than one team.

1. Data use is subject to the terms of the applicable EULA.

2. A participating team can only submit up to five predictions, and the best score will be the final score.

3. In order to officially win the challenge, a paper describing the approach must be submitted to, and accepted by INTERSPEECH 2025.

4. The baseline paper should always be cited appropriately in the abovementioned paper.

Z. Yang, M. Song, X. Jing, H. Zhang, K. Qian, B. Hu, K. Tamada, T. Takumi, B. W. Schuller, and Y. Yamamoto, "MADUV: The 1st INTERSPEECH mice autism detection via ultrasound vocalization challenge," arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.04292, 2025.

A team might be disqualified in case of 

1. Violation of the abovementioned terms.

2. Violation of the EULA.

3. Any action that aims to gain an unfair advantage over other participating teams, e.g. attempts to manipulate the evaluation procedure. 

4. Violation of basic rules of good scientific practice, e.g. non-original prediction or plagiarism in the paper.

1. The organising team reserves the right to update or change the terms at any time, with the commitment to notify participating teams of significant changes.

2. For any questions or inquiries, please contact the organising team via info@maduv.org.