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author Funosas, David
Massol, Elodie
Bas, Yves
Schmidt, Svenja
Arend, Dominik
Gebhard, Alexander
Barbaro, Luc
König, Sebastian
Font, Rafael Carbonell
Sannier, David
Deroussen, Fernand
Sueur, Jérôme
Roesti, Christian
Trilar, Tomi
Forstmeier, Wolfgang
Roger, Lucas
Matheu, Eloïsa
Guzik, Piotr
Barataud, Julien
Pelozuelo, Laurent
Puissant, Stéphane
Mueller, Sandra
Schuller, Björn
Montoya, Jose M.
Triantafyllopoulos, Andreas
Cauchoix, Maxime
author_facet Funosas, David
Massol, Elodie
Bas, Yves
Schmidt, Svenja
Arend, Dominik
Gebhard, Alexander
Barbaro, Luc
König, Sebastian
Font, Rafael Carbonell
Sannier, David
Deroussen, Fernand
Sueur, Jérôme
Roesti, Christian
Trilar, Tomi
Forstmeier, Wolfgang
Roger, Lucas
Matheu, Eloïsa
Guzik, Piotr
Barataud, Julien
Pelozuelo, Laurent
Puissant, Stéphane
Mueller, Sandra
Schuller, Björn
Montoya, Jose M.
Triantafyllopoulos, Andreas
Cauchoix, Maxime
contents Currently available tools for the automated acoustic recognition of European insects in natural soundscapes are limited in scope. Large and ecologically heterogeneous acoustic datasets are currently needed for these algorithms to cross-contextually recognize the subtle and complex acoustic signatures produced by each species, thus making the availability of such datasets a key requisite for their development. Here we present ECOSoundSet (European Cicadidae and Orthoptera Sound dataSet), a dataset containing 10,653 recordings of 200 orthopteran and 24 cicada species (217 and 26 respective taxa when including subspecies) present in North, Central, and temperate Western Europe (Andorra, Belgium, Denmark, mainland France and Corsica, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Switzerland), collected partly through targeted fieldwork in South France and Catalonia and partly through contributions from various European entomologists. The dataset is composed of a combination of coarsely labeled recordings, for which we can only infer the presence, at some point, of their target species (weak labeling), and finely annotated recordings, for which we know the specific time and frequency range of each insect sound present in the recording (strong labeling). We also provide a train/validation/test split of the strongly labeled recordings, with respective approximate proportions of 0.8, 0.1 and 0.1, in order to facilitate their incorporation in the training and evaluation of deep learning algorithms. This dataset could serve as a meaningful complement to recordings already available online for the training of deep learning algorithms for the acoustic classification of orthopterans and cicadas in North, Central, and temperate Western Europe.
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spellingShingle ECOSoundSet: a finely annotated dataset for the automated acoustic identification of Orthoptera and Cicadidae in North, Central and temperate Western Europe
Funosas, David
Massol, Elodie
Bas, Yves
Schmidt, Svenja
Arend, Dominik
Gebhard, Alexander
Barbaro, Luc
König, Sebastian
Font, Rafael Carbonell
Sannier, David
Deroussen, Fernand
Sueur, Jérôme
Roesti, Christian
Trilar, Tomi
Forstmeier, Wolfgang
Roger, Lucas
Matheu, Eloïsa
Guzik, Piotr
Barataud, Julien
Pelozuelo, Laurent
Puissant, Stéphane
Mueller, Sandra
Schuller, Björn
Montoya, Jose M.
Triantafyllopoulos, Andreas
Cauchoix, Maxime
Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Audio and Speech Processing
Currently available tools for the automated acoustic recognition of European insects in natural soundscapes are limited in scope. Large and ecologically heterogeneous acoustic datasets are currently needed for these algorithms to cross-contextually recognize the subtle and complex acoustic signatures produced by each species, thus making the availability of such datasets a key requisite for their development. Here we present ECOSoundSet (European Cicadidae and Orthoptera Sound dataSet), a dataset containing 10,653 recordings of 200 orthopteran and 24 cicada species (217 and 26 respective taxa when including subspecies) present in North, Central, and temperate Western Europe (Andorra, Belgium, Denmark, mainland France and Corsica, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Switzerland), collected partly through targeted fieldwork in South France and Catalonia and partly through contributions from various European entomologists. The dataset is composed of a combination of coarsely labeled recordings, for which we can only infer the presence, at some point, of their target species (weak labeling), and finely annotated recordings, for which we know the specific time and frequency range of each insect sound present in the recording (strong labeling). We also provide a train/validation/test split of the strongly labeled recordings, with respective approximate proportions of 0.8, 0.1 and 0.1, in order to facilitate their incorporation in the training and evaluation of deep learning algorithms. This dataset could serve as a meaningful complement to recordings already available online for the training of deep learning algorithms for the acoustic classification of orthopterans and cicadas in North, Central, and temperate Western Europe.
title ECOSoundSet: a finely annotated dataset for the automated acoustic identification of Orthoptera and Cicadidae in North, Central and temperate Western Europe
topic Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20776