[PDF][PDF] Recommendations for acoustic recognizer performance assessment with application to five common automated signal recognition programs

EC Knight, KC Hannah, GJ Foley, CD Scott… - ACE, 2017 - researchgate.net
Automated signal recognition software is increasingly used to extract species detection data
from acoustic recordings collected using autonomous recording units (ARUs), but there is …

Toward a computational neuroethology of vocal communication: from bioacoustics to neurophysiology, emerging tools and future directions

T Sainburg, TQ Gentner - Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recently developed methods in computational neuroethology have enabled increasingly
detailed and comprehensive quantification of animal movements and behavioral kinematics …

Automated annotation of birdsong with a neural network that segments spectrograms

Y Cohen, DA Nicholson, A Sanchioni, EK Mallaber… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Songbirds provide a powerful model system for studying sensory-motor learning. However,
many analyses of birdsong require time-consuming, manual annotation of its elements …

Parallels in the sequential organization of birdsong and human speech

T Sainburg, B Theilman, M Thielk… - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Human speech possesses a rich hierarchical structure that allows for meaning to be altered
by words spaced far apart in time. Conversely, the sequential structure of nonhuman …

Recent advances at the interface of neuroscience and artificial neural networks

Y Cohen, TA Engel, C Langdon… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Biological neural networks adapt and learn in diverse behavioral contexts. Artificial neural
networks (ANNs) have exploited biological properties to solve complex problems. However …

Classification threshold and training data affect the quality and utility of focal species data processed with automated audio-recognition software

EC Knight, EM Bayne - Bioacoustics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Automated recognition is increasingly used to extract information about species
vocalizations from audio recordings. During processing, recognizers calculate the …

Pre-processing spectrogram parameters improve the accuracy of bioacoustic classification using convolutional neural networks

EC Knight, S Poo Hernandez, EM Bayne, V Bulitko… - Bioacoustics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A variety of automated classification approaches have been developed to
extract species detection information from large bioacoustic datasets. Convolutional neural …

Songbirds can learn flexible contextual control over syllable sequencing

L Veit, LY Tian, CJ Monroy Hernandez, MS Brainard - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The flexible control of sequential behavior is a fundamental aspect of speech, enabling
endless reordering of a limited set of learned vocal elements (syllables or words). Songbirds …

The impacts of fine-tuning, phylogenetic distance, and sample size on big-data bioacoustics

KL Provost, J Yang, BC Carstens - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Vocalizations in animals, particularly birds, are critically important behaviors that influence
their reproductive fitness. While recordings of bioacoustic data have been captured and …

Taking data science into the forest

J Longdon, J Gabrys… - Interdisciplinary Science …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
We contribute to the Science in the Forest, Science in the Past series by investigating the
specific practices of “data science”, a set of contemporary methods associated with large …