Friday, November 28, 2025

9:30 AM - 4:00 PM

University of Adelaide - The Braggs 313/314 Meeting Room

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Overview

Purpose Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is expanding rapidly, generating vast volumes of environmental audio data, but turning those recordings into clear ecological insights remains challenging. This Full Day workshop provides a practical, end‑to‑end workflow to bridge that gap. Participants will learn how to organise and store audio datasets, pre‑process and analyse recordings, and build and validate recognisers that can find wildlife sounds starting from a single example call. By the end, attendees will be equipped with repeatable methods to move efficiently from raw audio to ecological insights. Methodology We guide participants through: - Data management: structuring projects and storage for large audio datasets - Embeddings search: using single call examples to search audio recordings - Recogniser building: creating species-specific recognisers from minimal training data - Validation and performance: showcasing simple validation interface and evaluating recogniser performance - Reporting: producing clear summary outputs for ecological interpretation and management Key Findings Using real-world datasets, we show that single‑example workflows can: - Rapidly develop species-specific call recognisers - Achieve reliable performance with careful thresholding and validation - Reveal biologically meaningful patterns Relevance Participants will leave able to: - Organise and process acoustic datasets - Build and validate species recognisers from a single call - Generate ecologically relevant insights No prior machine‑learning experience is required. We focus on practical steps and best practices that make ecoacoustic analyses repeatable and actionable.

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Details

Participants will be familiar with the process of finding sounds of interest in environmental recordings from a single example call. They will know how to store and process audio data, create species specific recognisers, validate the performance of recognisers, and create summary graphs. Format - presentations, discussions, practical demonstrations, interactive software demonstrations Suitable for Researchers, land-managers, conservation practitioners, consultants, and anyone that wants to find sounds in their environmental audio recordings.