arxivcs.LGcs.SD2026-07-15
MetaPerch: Learning from metadata for bioacoustics foundation models
Mustafa Chasmai, Vincent Dumoulin, Jenny Hamer
Bioacoustic foundation models rely on large-scale citizen science platforms like Xeno-Canto for geographically and ecologically diverse data. Recent work has shown that supervision alone can produce SotA species detection models when trained on this large-scale data -- however, t…