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.
By Mustafa Chasmai, Vincent Dumoulin, Jenny Hamer
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: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:2402. 01591v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spatial sound reasoning is a fundamental human skill, enabling us to navigate and interpret our surroundings based on sound.
By Zhisheng Zheng, Puyuan Peng, Ziyang Ma, Xie Chen, Eunsol Choi, David Harwath
arXiv:2606. 14141v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sound events are entities with semantic identities, locations, and trajectories, but current audio-language models usually reason about clips as global event content.
By Oh Hyun-Bin, Kazuki Shimada, Yuhta Takida, Kim Sung-Bin, Toshimitsu Uesaka, Takashi Shibuya, Kyeongyoon Lee, Tae-Hyun Oh, Yuki Mitsufuji
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.
By Olga Isupova, Danil Kuzin, Ella Browning, Tom Mills, Steven Reece
arXiv:2607. 24786v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Weak supervision sets a practical regime for audio-visual sound source localization as dense spatial annotations are costly to obtain at scale.
By Hugo Malard, Michel Olvera, Sanjeel Parekh, Ga\"el Richard, Slim Essid, St\'ephane Lathuili\`ere
arXiv:2608. 08911v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) offer an opportunity to obtain ecological spatial point-process data at unprecedented scale.
By Jennifer N. Kampe, Changwoo J. Lee, Xin Shen, Ari Lehti\"o, Sandro von Brandenburg, Ossi Nokelainen, David B. Dunson, Otso Ovaskainen
arXiv:2607. 16736v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents RealDESED, a real-world domestic sound event detection (SED) benchmark comprising 5,710 audio recordings collected by 652 participants in their homes.
By Florian Schmid, Paul Primus, Alexander Fichtinger, Tara Jadidi, Tobias Morocutti, Gerhard Widmer
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
arXiv:2512. 10120v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: General-purpose audio representations aim to map acoustically variable instances of the same event to nearby points, resolving content identity in a zero-shot setting.
By Maris Basha, Anja Zai, Sabine Stoll, Richard Hahnloser
arXiv:2607. 07733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Passive hydroacoustic monitoring often generates large volumes of continuous recordings that are only partially exploited due to the cost of manual annotation.
By Pierre-Yves Raumer, Axel Marmoret, Dorian Cazau, Anatole Gros-Martial, Richard Dreo, Maelle Torterotot, Sara Bazin, Flore Samaran, Jean-Yves Royer