animal2vec and <scp>MeerKAT:</scp> A self‐supervised transformer for rare‐event raw audio input and a large‐scale reference dataset for bioacoustics
Year: 2025
Type: article
Language: en
Topic: Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
Authors and affiliations:
raw_author_name: Julian C. Schäfer‐Zimmermann
raw_affiliation_strings: Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior  Konstanz Germany
Department of Biology University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
raw_author_name: Vlad Demartsev
raw_affiliation_strings: Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior  Konstanz Germany
Department of Biology University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
Kalahari Research Centre  Van Zylsrus Northern Cape South Africa
raw_author_name: Baptiste Averly
raw_affiliation_strings: Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior  Konstanz Germany
Department of Biology University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
Kalahari Research Centre  Van Zylsrus Northern Cape South Africa
raw_author_name: Kiran L. Dhanjal‐Adams
raw_affiliation_strings: Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior  Konstanz Germany
Department of Biology University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew  Richmond UK
raw_author_name: Mathieu Duteil
raw_affiliation_strings: Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior  Konstanz Germany
Department of Biology University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
raw_author_name: Gabriella Gall
raw_affiliation_strings: Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior  Konstanz Germany
Department of Biology University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
Zukunftskolleg University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
raw_author_name: Marius Faiß
raw_affiliation_strings: Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior  Konstanz Germany
Department of Biology University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
raw_author_name: Lily Johnson‐Ulrich
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich  Zurich Switzerland
Kalahari Research Centre  Van Zylsrus Northern Cape South Africa
raw_author_name: Dan Stowell
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Tilburg University  Tilburg The Netherlands
Naturalis Biodiversity Center  Leiden The Netherlands
raw_author_name: Marta B. Manser
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich  Zurich Switzerland
Interdisciplinary Center for the Evolution of Language University of Zurich  Zurich Switzerland
Kalahari Research Centre  Van Zylsrus Northern Cape South Africa
raw_author_name: Marie A. Roch
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Computer Science San Diego State University  San Diego California USA
raw_author_name: Ariana Strandburg‐Peshkin
raw_affiliation_strings: Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior  Konstanz Germany
Department of Biology University of Konstanz  Konstanz Germany
Kalahari Research Centre  Van Zylsrus Northern Cape South Africa