4 papers
BAT: Better Audio Transformer Guided by Convex Gated Probing
Houtan Ghaffari, Lukas Rauch, Christoph Scholz +1
Probing is widely adopted in computer vision to faithfully evaluate self-supervised learning (SSL) embeddings, as finetuning may misrepresent their inherent quality. In contrast, a…
Audio-to-Image Bird Species Retrieval without Audio-Image Pairs via Text Distillation
Ilyass Moummad, Marius Miron, Lukas Rauch +5
Audio-to-image retrieval offers an interpretable alternative to audio-only classification for bioacoustic species recognition, but learning aligned audio-image representations is c…
Foundation Models for Bioacoustics -- a Comparative Review
Raphael Schwinger, Paria Vali Zadeh, Lukas Rauch +4
Automated bioacoustic analysis is essential for biodiversity monitoring and conservation, requiring advanced deep learning models that can adapt to diverse bioacoustic tasks. This…
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…