4 papers
Bioacoustic Geolocation: Species Sounds as Geographic Signals
Mustafa Chasmai, Wuao Liu, Subhransu Maji +1
Can we determine someone's geographic location solely from the sounds they hear? Are acoustic signals enough to localize within a country, state, or even city? In this work, we tac…
From Shortcuts to Reasoning: Robust Post-Training of Theory of Mind with Reinforcement Learning
Jike Zhong, Yuxiang Lai, Ming Li +5
Theory of Mind (ToM) is a must-acquire skill for modern foundation model systems to operate effectively and safely in the real world. Recent works have explored honing ToM via post…
Masked Autoencoders with Limited Data: Does It Work? A Fine-Grained Bioacoustics Case Study
Wuao Liu, Mustafa Chasmai, Subhransu Maji +1
Bioacoustic recognition requires fine-grained acoustic understanding to distinguish similar-sounding species. However, many large-scale data repositories such as iNaturalist are we…
RealBirdID: Benchmarking Bird Species Identification in the Era of MLLMs
Logan Lawrence, Mustafa Chasmai, Rangel Daroya +8
Fine-grained bird species identification in the wild is frequently unanswerable from a single image: key cues may be non-visual (e.g. vocalization), or obscured due to occlusion, c…