Transcriptions of NIPS4B 2013 Bird Challenge Training Dataset

Created By-------------<br>Veronica Morfi (1), Dan Stowell (1) and Hanna Pamula (2).<br>(1): Machine Listening Lab, Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK(2): AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Mechanics and Vibroacoustics, Kraków, Poland<br>Description--------------<br>The zip file contains 674 individual recording temporal annotations for the training set of the NIPS4B 2013 dataset in the birdsong classifications task (original size of dataset is 687 recordings).<br>Task and dataset description can be found in: http://sabiod.univ-tln.fr/nips4b/challenge1.html Donwload zip file of dataset and weak annotations at: http://sabiod.univ-tln.fr/nips4b/media/birds/NIPS4B_BIRD_CHALLENGE_TRAIN_TEST_WAV.tar.gz<br><br>Annotation Files------------<br>Transcriptions were produced using Sonic Visualiser: https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ by an experienced birdwatcher, Hanna Pamula.<br>Number of missing annotations: 13 (6 of these files contained sounds which could not be unambiguously labelled and the rest 7 of them only included insects)<br>The original (weak) labels provided during the NIPS4B 2013 challenge were used for guidance. However, some files were judged to have a slightly different set of species present than was given in the original metadata.<br>Extra Unknown label was added to the dataset for the vocalisations that couldn't be classified to a specific species. Also, extra Human label was added for a few recordings that had human sounds present in them.<br>Transcription format:[Starting time (sec)],[Duration of event (sec)],[Label]