Introduction: Road traffic crashes represent a major public health concern, so it is of
significant importance to understand the factors associated with the increase of injury …

A lot of hype has recently been generated around deep learning, a novel group of artificial
intelligence approaches able to break accuracy records in pattern recognition. Over the …

Acoustic data provide scientific and engineering insights in fields ranging from biology and
communications to ocean and Earth science. We survey the recent advances and …

Stressed plants show altered phenotypes, including changes in color, smell, and shape. Yet,
airborne sounds emitted by stressed plants have not been investigated before. Here we …

Vocalizations of anuran amphibians have received much attention in studies of behavioral
ecology and physiology, but also provide informative characters for identifying and …

In many areas of animal behaviour research, improvements in our ability to collect large and
detailed data sets are outstripping our ability to analyse them. These diverse, complex and …

Acoustic surveys are a widely used sampling tool in ecological research and monitoring.
They are used to monitor populations and ecosystems and to study various aspects of …

Conservationists are increasingly using autonomous acoustic recorders to determine the
presence/absence and the abundance of bird species. Unlike humans, these recorders can …

In this paper we present ensembles of classifiers for automated animal audio classification,
exploiting different data augmentation techniques for training Convolutional Neural …

Reliable estimation of the size or density of wild animal populations is very important for
effective wildlife management, conservation and ecology. Currently, the most widely used …