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MeerKAT: Meerkat Kalahari Audio Transcripts
A large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics. MeerKAT is a 1068h large-scale dataset containing data from audio-recording collars worn by free-ranging meerkats (Suricata suricatta) at the Kalahari Research Centre, South Africa, of which 184h are labeled with twelve time-resolved vocalization-type ground truth target classes, each with millisecond resolution. The labeled 184h MeerKAT subset exhibits realistic sparsity conditions for a bioacoustic dataset (96% background-noise or other signals and 4% vocalizations), dispersed across 66398 10-second samples, spanning 251562 labeled events and showcasing significant spectral and temporal variability, making it the first large-scale reference point with real-world conditions for benchmarking pretraining and finetune approaches in bioacoustics deep learning.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
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| Audio Classification | MeerKAT: Meerkat Kalahari Audio Transcripts | animal2vec AP 0.91 | animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer... | livingingroups/animal2vec | 1 | Compare |
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| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
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| animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics | 1 | 1 | 3 Jun 2024 | not harvested |
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