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most citedPerch 2.0: The Bittern Lesson for Bioacoustics

7 citations · 15 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

eess.AS2026

Beyond Discrimination: Calibrated Geoprior Fusion for Bioacoustic Monitoring

Neha Sajja, Bart van Merriënboer, Burcu Karagol Ayan +1

Modern bioacoustic foundation models like Perch and BirdNET can identify species with high discriminative accuracy, yet their confidence scores are often uncalibrated and difficult…

cs.LG2025

Perch 2.0 transfers 'whale' to underwater tasks

Andrea Burns, Lauren Harrell, Bart van Merriënboer +3

Perch 2.0 is a supervised bioacoustics foundation model pretrained on 14,597 species, including birds, mammals, amphibians, and insects, and has state-of-the-art performance on mul…

cs.LG2025★ 7 cited

Perch 2.0: The Bittern Lesson for Bioacoustics

Bart van Merriënboer, Vincent Dumoulin, Jenny Hamer +3

Perch is a performant pre-trained model for bioacoustics. It was trained in supervised fashion, providing both off-the-shelf classification scores for thousands of vocalizing speci…

eess.AS2025★ 2 cited

The Search for Squawk: Agile Modeling in Bioacoustics

Vincent Dumoulin, Otilia Stretcu, Jenny Hamer +16

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has shown great promise in helping ecologists understand the health of animal populations and ecosystems. However, extracting insights from millio…

cs.SD2024★ 6 cited

Leveraging tropical reef, bird and unrelated sounds for superior transfer learning in marine bioacoustics

Ben Williams, Bart van Merriënboer, Vincent Dumoulin +12

Machine learning has the potential to revolutionize passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) for ecological assessments. However, high annotation and compute costs limit the field's effic…