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Recognizing Birds from Sound - The 2018 BirdCLEF Baseline System

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2018-04-20 v1

Abstract

Reliable identification of bird species in recorded audio files would be a transformative tool for researchers, conservation biologists, and birders. In recent years, artificial neural networks have greatly improved the detection quality of machine learning systems for bird species recognition. We present a baseline system using convolutional neural networks. We publish our code base as reference for participants in the 2018 LifeCLEF bird identification task and discuss our experiments and potential improvements.

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@article{arxiv.1804.07177,
  title  = {Recognizing Birds from Sound - The 2018 BirdCLEF Baseline System},
  author = {Stefan Kahl and Thomas Wilhelm-Stein and Holger Klinck and Danny Kowerko and Maximilian Eibl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.07177},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

The repository and a continuative tutorial can be found here: https://github.com/kahst/BirdCLEF-Baseline

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