WABAD: A World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for Passive Acoustic Monitoring
Pérez-Granados, Cristian; Etxebarría, Jon Morant; Darras, Kevin Félix Arno; Gómez, Oscar Humberto Marín; Mendoza, Irene; Mohedano-Muñoz, Miguel Ángel; Santamaría, Eduardo; Bastianelli, Giulia; Márquez-Rodríguez, Alba; Budka, Michał; Bota, Gerard; Rubio, José M. de la Peña; Morena, Eladio L. García de la; Santa-Cruz:, Manu; Nava, Pablo de la; Fernández-Tizón, Mario; Sánchez-Mateos, Hugo; Barrero, Adrián; Traba, Juan; Osiejuk, Tomasz S.; Hart, Patrick J.; Navine, A.; Muñoz, Andrés Felipe Montoya; de Araujo, Carlos Barros; Rosa, Gabriel Lima Medina; Torres, Ingrid Maria Denóbile; Catalano, Ana Luiza Camargo; Simões, Cássio Rachid Meireles de Almeida; Llusia, Diego; M. B., Morales Manuel; Acebes, Pablo; Medina, Juan Antonio; Brown, Nicholas; Astaras, Christos; Karmiris, Ilias; Navarrete, Elizabeth; Cauchoix, Maxime; Barbaro, Luc; Funosas, David; Arend, Dominik; Müller, Sandra; González-García, Fernando; González-Romero, Alberto; Mammides, Christos; Pontikis, Michaelangelo; Jacuzzi, Giordan...
Under the current global biodiversity crisis, there is a need for automated and non-invasive monitoring techniques that are able to gather large amounts of information cost-effectively at large scales. One such technique is passive acoustic monitoring, which is commonly coupled with automatic identification of animal species based on their sound. Automated sound analyses usually require the training of sound detection and identification algorithms. These algorithms are based on annotated acoustic datasets which mark the occurrence of sounds of particular species. However, compiling large annotated acoustic datasets is time consuming and requires experts, and therefore they normally cover a reduced spatial and taxonomic scale. This data paper presents WABAD, the World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for passive acoustic monitoring. WABAD is designed to provide the public, the research community, and conservation managers with a novel and globally representative annotated acoustic dataset. This database includes 5,044 minutes of audio files annotated to species-level by local experts with the start and end time, and the upper and lower frequencies of each identified bird vocalisation in the recordings. The database has a wide taxonomic and spatial coverage, including information on 90,662 vocalisations from 1,147 bird species recorded at 70 recording sites in 27 countries and distributed across 13 biomes. WABAD can be used, for example, for developing and/or validating automatic species detection algorithms, answering ecological questions, such as assessing geographical variations on bird vocalisations, or comparing acoustic diversity indices with species-based diversity indices. The dataset is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International copyright.
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Pérez-Granados, C., Etxebarría, J. M., Darras, K. F. A., Gómez, O. H. M., Mendoza, I., Mohedano-Muñoz, M. Á., Santamaría, E., Bastianelli, G., Márquez-Rodríguez, A., Budka, M., Bota, G., Rubio, J. M. D. L. P., Morena, E. L. G. D. L., Santa-Cruz:, M., Nava, P. D. L., Fernández-Tizón, M., Sánchez-Mateos, H., Barrero, A., Traba, J., Osiejuk, T. S., …Sebastián-González, E. WABAD: A World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for Passive Acoustic Monitoring
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