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NatureLM-audio: An Audio-Language Foundation Model for Bioacoustics
David Robinson, Marius Miron, Masato Hagiwara, Olivier Pietquin
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AI evolution: bring biomimicry to language models
Adriano R Lameira*, Olivier Pietquin*
AI-powered playbacks engage in flexible vocal interactions with zebra finches
Logan S. James, Benjamin Hoffman, Jen-Yu Liu, Marius Miron, Milad Alizadeh, Emmanuel Fernandez, Matthieu Geist, Diane Kim, Aza Raskin, Jon T. Sakata, Emmanuel Chemla, Olivier Pietquin, Sarah C. Woolley
Compact Hypercube Embeddings for Fast Text-based Wildlife Observation Retrieval
Ilyass Moummad, Marius Miron, David Robinson, Kawtar Zaher, Hervé Goëau, Olivier Pietquin, Pierre Bonnet, Emmanuel Chemla, Matthieu Geist, Alexis Joly
Audio-to-Image Bird Species Retrieval without Audio-Image Pairs via Text Distillation
Ilyass Moummad, Marius Miron, Lukas Rauch, David Robinson, Alexis Joly, Olivier Pietquin, Emmanuel Chemla, Matthieu Geist
Capturing vocal communication in a free-living corvid: high-resolution data from low-impact miniaturized tags
Vittorio Baglione, Daniela Canestrari, Maddie Cusimano, Benjamin Hoffman, Victor Moreno, Eva Trapote
Crossing the Species Divide: Transfer Learning from Speech to Animal Sounds
Jules Cauzinille, Marius Miron, Olivier Pietquin, Masato Hagiwara, Ricard Marxer, Arnaud Rey, Benoit Favre
AVEX: What Matters for Animal Vocalization Encoding
Marius Miron, David Robinson, Milad Alizadeh, Ellen Gilsenan-McMahon, Gagan Narula, Emmanuel Chemla, Maddie Cusimano, Felix Effenberger, Masato Hagiwara, Benjamin Hoffman, Sara Keen, Diane Kim, Jane Lawton, Jen-Yu Liu, Aza Raskin, Olivier Pietquin, Matthieu Geist
Robust detection of overlapping bioacoustic sound events
Louis Mahon, Benjamin Hoffman, Logan S James, Maddie Cusimano, Masato Hagiwara, Sarah C Woolley, Olivier Pietquin
Synthetic data enables context-aware bioacoustic sound event detection
Benjamin Hoffman, David Robinson, Marius Miron, Vittorio Baglione, Daniela Canestrari, Damian Elias, Eva Trapote, Olivier Pietquin
Bio-logger Ethogram Benchmark (BEBE): A benchmark for the computational analysis of animal behavior, using animal-borne tags
Benjamin Hoffman, Maddie Cusimano, Vittorio Baglione, Daniela Canestrari, Damien Chevallier, Dominic L. DeSantis, Lorène Jeantet, Monique A. Ladds, Takuya Maekawa, Vicente Mata-Silva, Víctor Moreno-González, Anthony M. Pagano, Eva Trapote, Outi Vainio, Antti Vehkaoja, Ken Yoda, Katherine Zacarian & Ari Friedlaender
Biodenoising: Animal Vocalization Denoising Without Access to Clean Data
Marius Miron, Sara Keen, Jen-Yu Liu, Benjamin Hoffman, Masato Hagiwara, Olivier Pietquin, Felix Effenberger, Maddie Cusimano
ISPA: Inter-Species Phonetic Alphabet for Transcribing Animal Sounds
Masato Hagiwara, Marius Miron, Jen-Yu Liu
Using machine learning to decode animal communication
Christian Rutz, Michael Bronstein Aza Raskin, Sonja C. Vernes, Katherine Zacarian, Damian E. Blasi
BEANS: The Benchmark of Animal Sounds
Masato Hagiwara, Benjamin Hoffman, Jen-Yu Liu, Maddie Cusimano, Felix Effenberger, Katie Zacarian