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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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Stefan Kahl , Thomas Wilhelm-Stein , Holger Klinck , Danny Kowerko , Maximilian Eibl

Ecological and conservation studies monitoring bird communities typically rely on species classification based on bird vocalizations. Historically, this has been based on expert volunteers going into the field and making lists of the bird…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-29 Haoxuan Wang , Patrik Lauha , David B. Dunson

Changes in bird populations can indicate broader changes in ecosystems, making birds one of the most important animal groups to monitor. Combining machine learning and passive acoustics enables continuous monitoring over extended periods…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Simen Hexeberg , Mandar Chitre , Matthias Hoffmann-Kuhnt , Bing Wen Low

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

This paper studies the detection of bird calls in audio segments using stacked convolutional and recurrent neural networks. Data augmentation by blocks mixing and domain adaptation using a novel method of test mixing are proposed and…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Sharath Adavanne , Konstantinos Drossos , Emre Çakır , Tuomas Virtanen

An algorithm involving Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) is provided to perform signal feature extraction for the task of speaker accent recognition. Then different classifiers are compared based on the MFCC feature. For each…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Zichen Ma , Ernest Fokoue

Many biological monitoring projects rely on acoustic detection of birds. Despite increasingly large datasets, this detection is often manual or semi-automatic, requiring manual tuning/postprocessing. We review the state of the art in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Dan Stowell , Mike Wood , Yannis Stylianou , Hervé Glotin

Bird species classification has received more and more attention in the field of computer vision, for its promising applications in biology and environmental studies. Recognizing bird species is difficult due to the challenges of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Sourya Dipta Das , Akash Kumar

Music genre classification is an area that utilizes machine learning models and techniques for the processing of audio signals, in which applications range from content recommendation systems to music recommendation systems. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Keoikantse Mogonediwa

This work focuses on reliable detection of bird sound emissions as recorded in the open field. Acoustic detection of avian sounds can be used for the automatized monitoring of multiple bird taxa and querying in long-term recordings for…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Ilyas Potamitis

The task of efficient automatic music classification is of vital importance and forms the basis for various advanced applications of AI in the musical domain. Musical instrument recognition is the task of instrument identification by virtue…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Saranga Kingkor Mahanta , Abdullah Faiz Ur Rahman Khilji , Partha Pakray

Recognition and interpretation of bird vocalizations are pivotal in ornithological research and ecological conservation efforts due to their significance in understanding avian behaviour, performing habitat assessment and judging ecological…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Yashwardhan Chaudhuri , Paridhi Mundra , Arnesh Batra , Orchid Chetia Phukan , Arun Balaji Buduru

We evaluated the effectiveness of an automated bird sound identification system in a situation that emulates a realistic, typical application. We trained classification algorithms on a crowd-sourced collection of bird audio recording data…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Timos Papadopoulos , Stephen J. Roberts , Katherine J. Willis

As the technology is advancing, audio recognition in machine learning is improved as well. Research in audio recognition has traditionally focused on speech. Living creatures (especially the small ones) are part of the whole ecosystem,…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Siddhardha Balemarthy , Atul Sajjanhar , James Xi Zheng

Bird sounds possess distinctive spectral structure which may exhibit small shifts in spectrum depending on the bird species and environmental conditions. In this paper, we propose using convolutional recurrent neural networks on the task of…

Passive Acoustic Monitoring is a key tool for biodiversity conservation, but the large volumes of unsupervised audio it generates present major challenges for extracting meaningful information. Deep Learning offers promising solutions.…

Many approaches have been used in bird species classification from their sound in order to provide labels for the whole of a recording. However, a more precise classification of each bird vocalization would be of great importance to the use…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Veronica Morfi , Dan Stowell

It is easier to hear birds than see them, however, they still play an essential role in nature and they are excellent indicators of deteriorating environmental quality and pollution. Recent advances in Machine Learning and Convolutional…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Marcos V. Conde , Kumar Shubham , Prateek Agnihotri , Nitin D. Movva , Szilard Bessenyei

Insect population numbers and biodiversity have been rapidly declining with time, and monitoring these trends has become increasingly important for conservation measures to be effectively implemented. But monitoring methods are often…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Marius Faiß , Dan Stowell

Researches on sequential vocalization often require analysis of vocalizations in long continuous sounds. In such studies as developmental ones or studies across generations in which days or months of vocalizations must be analyzed, methods…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-28 Takuya Koumura , Kazuo Okanoya