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Can Tokens Compete? Token Representations against Supervised CNN Backbones for B

This paper details the DS@GT ARC team's approach to BirdCLEF+ 2026, multi-label detection of animal vocalizations in soundscapes from the Pantanal wetlands. The 2026 edition adds about an hour of labeled soundscapes, shifting the task towar

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14474v1 ↗
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