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20242026
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6 papers

cs.SD2026

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.SD2026

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.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.LG2025

Adversarial Training Improves Generalization Under Distribution Shifts in Bird Sound Classification

René Heinrich, René Heinrich, Lukas Rauch +5

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.SD2025

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…

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…