arXiv Machine Learning

Bioacoustic Geolocation: Species Sounds as Geographic Signals

arXiv:2505. 18726v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Can we determine someone's geographic location solely from the sounds they hear?

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 15

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 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 Machine Learning
Jun 15

Beyond task performance: Decoding bioacoustic embeddings with speech features

arXiv:2606. 14662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained audio embeddings are standard in bioacoustics, yet little is known about which acoustic features these models encode, nor which are useful for a given task.

By Ines Nolasco, Jules Cauzinille, Marius Miron, Gagan Narula, Milad Alizadeh, Emmanuel Fernandez, Matthieu Geist, Ellen Gilsenan-McMahon, Olivier Pietquin, Emmanuel Chemla, Sara Keen
arXiv AI
Jun 10

Spatial-Omni: Spatial Audio Understanding Integration in Multimodal LLMs via FOA Encoding

arXiv:2606. 10738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models mainly process audio as monaural signals, thereby discarding the spatial cues contained in spatial audio for sound localization, spatial relation reasoning, and spatial scene understanding.

By Zhiyuan Zhu, Yixuan Chen, Yiwen Shao, Wenxiang Guo, Changhao Pan, Yu Zhang, Yuxiang Wang, Wei Liu, Houhua Zhang, Chengkuan Zeng, Wenbo Cheng, Yunxi Liu, Rui Yang, Steve Yves, Liefeng Bo, Zhou Zhao