Transcriptions of NIPS4B 2013 Bird Challenge Training Dataset

(1): Machine Listening Lab, Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK(2): AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Kraków, Poland Description-------------- The zip file contains 637 individual recording transcriptions for the training set of the NIPS4B 2013 dataset in the birdsong classifications task (original size of dataset is 687 recordings).

Task and dataset description can be found in: sabiod.univ-tln.fr/nips4b/challenge1.html Donwload zip file of dataset and weak annotations at: sabiod.univ-tln.fr/nips4b/media/birds/NIPS4B_BIRD_CHALLENGE_TRAIN_TEST_WAV.tar.gz Annotation Files------------ Transcriptions were produced using Sonic Visualiser: sonicvisualiser.org/ by an experienced birdwatcher, Hanna Pamula. Number of missing annotations: 50 (these files contained sounds which could not be unambiguously labelled) The original (weak) labels provided during the NIPS4B 2013 challenge were used for guidance.