From Sound to Species: Build Ecoacoustic Recognisers with Ecosounds and Perch

About the Event

Join us for this webinar in the Open Ecoacoustic Webinar series, where we introduce a practical, accessible approach to building ecoacoustic recognisers by combining the strengths of Ecosounds and Google Perch.

Environmental audio is being collected at an unprecedented scale, but turning thousands of hours of recordings into usable ecological insight remains a major challenge. Designed for research infrastructure providers, ecologists, and data practitioners, the session will walk through how modern AI techniques – specifically embedding-based recognition – can dramatically reduce the effort required to detect species in complex soundscapes.

Participants will be guided through the end-to-end workflow:

• brief tour of managing large audio datasets within Ecosounds, new reporting tools, and glimpse into call detective
• using Perch to generate acoustic embeddings from raw recordings and creating a custom recogniser
• then running recogniser across large collections, and finally sharing the recogniser.

The webinar will include practical examples, highlighting how these tools can be deployed within existing research infrastructure and data platforms.

Speakers

• Philip Eichinski, Senior Research Software Engineer, QUT Ecoacoustics
• Dr Anthony Truskinger, Research Software Engineer, QUT Ecoacoustics

Who Should Attend

• Ecologists and biodiversity researchers
• Ecoacoustic practitioners
• Environmental data scientists and AI/ML practitioners
• Research software engineers and technical support staff
• Government, conservation and environmental monitoring organisations

Recording

This session will be recorded. The recording will be provided to all registrants and published on the ARDC YouTube channel.

About Open Ecoacoustics

Australia’s biodiversity crisis necessitates urgent action to deliver continental-scale monitoring and management of threatened species and ecosystems. The Ecosounds platform aids ecoacoustics monitoring of these environments.

The project’s vision is to enable open science and conservation through the development and promotion of series.

The Open Ecoacoustics project provides the dedicated Ecosounds platform to allow anyone to store, process and share passive acoustic sound recordings with downstream services. The project is supported by the ARDC and supports FAIR data by developing standardised metadata and third-party analyses by moving to flexible workflow technologies. Open Ecoacoustics accelerates data analysis by publishing a shared repository of annotated datasets and recognisers. The project interfaces to other systems, including TERN, ALA, EcoCommons and citizen science sites, through services and shared tools.

Use Open Ecoacoustics today.

Learn More

• Learn more about and use Open Ecoacoustics.
• Learn about the ARDC’s Planet Research Data Commons for earth and environmental science research.
• Find resoures for environmental science researchers.

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