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Animal sounds can be recognised automatically by machine learning, and this has an important role to play in biodiversity monitoring. Yet despite increasingly impressive capabilities, bioacoustic species classifiers still exhibit imbalanced…

Audio sound recognition and classification is used for many tasks and applications including human voice recognition, music recognition and audio tagging. In this paper we apply Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) in combination with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yueying Chang , Richard O. Sinnott

Analyses for biodiversity monitoring based on passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) recordings is time-consuming and challenged by the presence of background noise in recordings. Existing models for sound event detection (SED) worked only on…

Bird sound classification is the task of relating any sound recording to those species of bird that can be heard in the recording. Here, we study bird sound clustering, the task of deciding for any pair of sound recordings whether the same…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-21 David Stein , Bjoern Andres

Automatic recognition of insect sound could help us understand changing biodiversity trends around the world -- but insect sounds are challenging to recognize even for deep learning. We present a new dataset comprised of 26399 audio files,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Marius Faiß , Burooj Ghani , Dan Stowell

Acoustic data (sound recordings) are a vital source of evidence for detecting, counting, and distinguishing wildlife. This domain of "bioacoustics" has grown in the past decade due to the massive advances in signal processing and machine…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Dan Stowell , Caitlin Black , Florencia Noriega , Sarab S. Sethi

We introduce the new audio analysis task of pedestrian detection and present a new large-scale dataset for this task. While the preliminary results prove the viability of using audio approaches for pedestrian detection, they also show that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Pavan Seshadri , Chaeyeon Han , Bon-Woo Koo , Noah Posner , Subhrajit Guhathakurta , Alexander Lerch

Automated bioacoustic analysis aids understanding and protection of both marine and terrestrial animals and their habitats across extensive spatiotemporal scales, and typically involves analyzing vast collections of acoustic data. With the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Burooj Ghani , Tom Denton , Stefan Kahl , Holger Klinck

Bird strikes present a huge risk for aircraft, especially since traditional airport bird surveillance is mainly dependent on inefficient human observation. Computer vision based technology has been proposed to automatically detect birds,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Ying Huang , Hong Zheng , Haibin Ling , Erik Blasch , Hao Yang

This paper presents Zwitscherkasten, a DiY, multimodal system for bird species monitoring using audio and visual data on edge devices. Deep learning models for bioacoustic and image-based classification are deployed on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Dominik Blum , Elias Häring , Fabian Jirges , Martin Schäffer , David Schick , Florian Schulenberg , Torsten Schön

Advances in passive acoustic monitoring and machine learning have led to the procurement of vast datasets for computational bioacoustic research. Nevertheless, data scarcity is still an issue for rare and underrepresented species. This…

This work introduces the one-shot learning paradigm in the computational bioacoustics domain. Even though, most of the related literature assumes availability of data characterizing the entire class dictionary of the problem at hand, that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Michelangelo Acconcjaioco , Stavros Ntalampiras

Birds produce multiple types of vocalizations that, together, constitute a vocal repertoire. For some species, the repertoire size is of importance because it informs us about their brain capacity, territory size or social behaviour.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-21 Joachim Poutaraud

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) learn rich semantic representations in audio classification through an efficient self-supervised reconstruction task. However, general-purpose models fail to generalize well when applied directly to fine-grained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Lukas Rauch , René Heinrich , Ilyass Moummad , Alexis Joly , Bernhard Sick , Christoph Scholz

The advancement of machine learning in audio analysis has opened new possibilities for technology-enhanced music education. This paper introduces a framework for automatic singing mistake detection in the context of music pedagogy,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Sumit Kumar , Suraj Jaiswal , Parampreet Singh , Vipul Arora

Audio deepfake detection is an emerging active topic. A growing number of literatures have aimed to study deepfake detection algorithms and achieved effective performance, the problem of which is far from being solved. Although there are…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Jiangyan Yi , Chenglong Wang , Jianhua Tao , Xiaohui Zhang , Chu Yuan Zhang , Yan Zhao

Identification of bird species from audio records is one of the challenging tasks due to the existence of multiple species in the same recording, noise in the background, and long-term recording. Besides, choosing a proper acoustic feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Nahian Ibn Hasan

This study investigates the potential of automated deep learning to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of multi-class classification of bird vocalizations, compared against traditional manually-designed deep learning models. Using the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Giulio Tosato , Abdelrahman Shehata , Joshua Janssen , Kees Kamp , Pramatya Jati , Dan Stowell

Passive acoustic monitoring is an emerging approach in wildlife research that leverages recent improvements in purpose-made automated recording units (ARUs). The general approach is to deploy ARUs in the field to record on a programmed…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Zachary J. Ruff , Damon B. Lesmeister

The rapid proliferation of drones across various industries has introduced significant challenges related to privacy, security, and noise pollution. Current drone detection systems, primarily based on visual and radar technologies, face…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mia Y. Wang , Mackenzie Linn , Andrew P. Berg , Qian Zhang