arXiv:2607. 06063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Eco-acoustic monitoring generates vast volumes of audio data, making active learning a promising approach for reducing annotation effort while efficiently training reliable biodiversity classifiers.
arXiv:2609.15255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ecological monitoring increasingly relies on machine learning models, whose performance depends on the quality and quantity of labelled data. However,...
The paper discusses how active learning (AL) can alleviate the expert annotation bottleneck in biodiversity monitoring by selecting the most informative samples under a fixed budget. It highlights that while AL reduces labeling effort, its non-random sample selection complicates model validation, calibration, and ecological inference, issues often overlooked in current studies. The authors review existing AL research across acoustic and image data, identify gaps such as limited species coverage and lack of real-world deployments, and propose a tutorial framework and roadmap for developing AL methods that support efficient training, reliable validation, and trustworthy ecological conclusions.
arXiv:2609.11986v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Passive acoustic monitoring produces far more bat recordings than experts can label. We show that simple model-generated pseudo-labels turn this surp...
arXiv:2606. 03821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active learning is now standard practice in labeling ecological data, enabling ecologists to quickly process large volumes of field data to understand and monitor natural environments.
arXiv:2607. 14072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bioacoustic foundation models rely on large-scale citizen science platforms like Xeno-Canto for geographically and ecologically diverse data.
The paper presents a lightweight ResNet-based two-stage cascade for passive acoustic monitoring of killer whales. First, it detects vocalizations, then it classifies confident detections into five eastern North Pacific ecotypes, abstaining on ambiguous calls. The pipeline achieves high macro‑F1 scores on the DCLDE 2027 dataset and improves real‑time inference speed, while active learning adapts the detector to new acoustic environments.
arXiv:2606. 13236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Passive acoustic monitoring holds great promise for ecological inference, yet existing automated tools are typically narrowly trained and non-transferable.
Active learning is now standard practice in labeling ecological data, enabling ecologists to quickly process large volumes of field data to understand and monitor natural environments. Current practices evaluate active learning inductively, estimating predictive performance on a held-out test set.
arXiv:2607. 03304v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable analysis of bird vocalisations in passive acoustic monitoring requires models handling multiple, imbalanced annotation targets.
arXiv:2609.35863v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern bioacoustic foundation models like Perch and BirdNET can identify species with high discriminative accuracy, yet their confidence scores are o...
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 trained on this large-scale data -- however, there remains unutilized potential in the form of recording metadata readily available within these community-driven data hubs.
arXiv:2607. 13555v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bioacoustic call-type classification relies on costly expert annotation.