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6 papers

cs.SD2025

Uncertainty Calibration of Multi-Label Bird Sound Classifiers

Raphael Schwinger, Ben McEwen, Vincent S. Kather +3

Passive acoustic monitoring enables large-scale biodiversity assessment, but reliable classification of bioacoustic sounds requires not only high accuracy but also well-calibrated…

cs.SD2025

Unmute the Patch Tokens: Rethinking Probing in Multi-Label Audio Classification

Lukas Rauch, René Heinrich, Houtan Ghaffari +4

Although probing frozen models has become a standard evaluation paradigm, self-supervised learning in audio defaults to fine-tuning when pursuing state-of-the-art on AudioSet. A ke…

cs.LG2025

Adversarial Training Improves Generalization Under Distribution Shifts in Bird Sound Classification

René Heinrich, Lukas Rauch, Raphael Schwinger +4

Adversarial training is a promising strategy for enhancing robustness against adversarial attacks, but its impact on generalization under substantial distribution shifts in audio c…

cs.LG2025

Can Masked Autoencoders Also Listen to Birds?

Lukas Rauch, René Heinrich, Ilyass Moummad +3

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) learn rich semantic representations in audio classification through an efficient self-supervised reconstruction task. However, general-purpose models fai…

cs.LG2024

AudioProtoPNet: An interpretable deep learning model for bird sound classification

René Heinrich, Lukas Rauch, Bernhard Sick +1

Deep learning models have significantly advanced acoustic bird monitoring by being able to recognize numerous bird species based on their vocalizations. However, traditional deep l…

cs.SD2024

BirdSet: A Large-Scale Dataset for Audio Classification in Avian Bioacoustics

Lukas Rauch, Raphael Schwinger, Moritz Wirth +8

Deep learning (DL) has greatly advanced audio classification, yet the field is limited by the scarcity of large-scale benchmark datasets that have propelled progress in other domai…