MetaPerch: Learning from metadata for bioacoustics foundation models
Bioacoustic foundation models rely on large-scale citizen science platforms like Xeno-Canto for geographically and ecologically diverse data. Recent work has shown that supervision alone can produce SotA species detection models when traine
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Mustafa Chasmai
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Vincent Dumoulin
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Jenny Hamer
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