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most citedGlobal birdsong embeddings enable superior transfer learning for bioacoustic classification

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cs.SD2025

Automated data curation for self-supervised learning in underwater acoustic analysis

Hilde I Hummel, Sandjai Bhulai, Burooj Ghani +1

The sustainability of the ocean ecosystem is threatened by increased levels of sound pollution, making monitoring crucial to understand its variability and impact. Passive acoustic…

cs.SD2025

InsectSet459: an open dataset of insect sounds for bioacoustic machine learning

Marius Faiß, Burooj Ghani, Dan Stowell

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 learnin…

cs.SD2024★ 4 cited

Generalization in birdsong classification: impact of transfer learning methods and dataset characteristics

Burooj Ghani, Vincent J. Kalkman, Bob Planqué +3

Animal sounds can be recognised automatically by machine learning, and this has an important role to play in biodiversity monitoring. Yet despite increasingly impressive capabiliti…

cs.SD2023

Efficient speech detection in environmental audio using acoustic recognition and knowledge distillation

Drew Priebe, Burooj Ghani, Dan Stowell

The ongoing biodiversity crisis, driven by factors such as land-use change and global warming, emphasizes the need for effective ecological monitoring methods. Acoustic monitoring…

cs.SD2023★ 6 cited

Few-shot bioacoustic event detection at the DCASE 2023 challenge

Ines Nolasco, Burooj Ghani, Shubhr Singh +12

Few-shot bioacoustic event detection consists in detecting sound events of specified types, in varying soundscapes, while having access to only a few examples of the class of inter…

cs.SD2023★ 65 cited

Learning to detect an animal sound from five examples

Inês Nolasco, Shubhr Singh, Veronica Morfi +14

Automatic detection and classification of animal sounds has many applications in biodiversity monitoring and animal behaviour. In the past twenty years, the volume of digitised wil…