Global birdsong embeddings enable superior transfer learning for bioacoustic classification

B Ghani, T Denton, S Kahl, H Klinck - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Automated bioacoustic analysis aids understanding and protection of both marine and
terrestrial animals and their habitats across extensive spatiotemporal scales, and typically …

Birds, bats and beyond: Evaluating generalization in bioacoustics models

B Van Merriënboer, J Hamer, V Dumoulin… - Frontiers in Bird …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
In the context of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) better models are needed to reliably
gain insights from large amounts of raw, unlabeled data. Bioacoustics foundation models …

[HTML][HTML] Learning to detect an animal sound from five examples

I Nolasco, S Singh, V Morfi, V Lostanlen… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Automatic detection and classification of animal sounds has many applications in
biodiversity monitoring and animal behavior. In the past twenty years, the volume of digitised …

Automatic detection for bioacoustic research: a practical guide from and for biologists and computer scientists

A Kershenbaum, Ç Akçay, L Babu‐Saheer… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in the use of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) for
biological and ecological applications, and a corresponding increase in the volume of data …

Feature embeddings from large-scale acoustic bird classifiers enable few-shot transfer learning

B Ghani, T Denton, S Kahl, H Klinck - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.06292, 2023 - arxiv.org
Automated bioacoustic analysis aids understanding and protection of both marine and
terrestrial animals and their habitats across extensive spatiotemporal scales, and typically …

A dataset for benchmarking Neotropical anuran calls identification in passive acoustic monitoring

JS Cañas, MP Toro-Gómez, LSM Sugai… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Global change is predicted to induce shifts in anuran acoustic behavior, which can be
studied through passive acoustic monitoring (PAM). Understanding changes in calling …

Aves: Animal vocalization encoder based on self-supervision

M Hagiwara - … 2023-2023 IEEE International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The lack of annotated training data in bioacoustics hinders the use of large-scale neural
network models trained in a supervised way. In order to leverage a large amount of …

BIRB: A Generalization Benchmark for Information Retrieval in Bioacoustics

J Hamer, E Triantafillou, B van Merrienboer… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The ability for a machine learning model to cope with differences in training and deployment
conditions--eg in the presence of distribution shift or the generalization to new classes …

Transferable models for bioacoustics with human language supervision

D Robinson, A Robinson… - ICASSP 2024-2024 …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Passive acoustic monitoring offers a scalable, non-invasive method for tracking global
biodiversity and anthropogenic impacts on species. Although deep learning has become a …

Applying machine learning to primate bioacoustics: Review and perspectives

J Cauzinille, B Favre, R Marxer… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the use of computational bioacoustics as
well as signal and speech processing techniques in the analysis of primate vocal …