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BirdNET: applications, performance, pitfalls and future opportunities

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dc.creator Pérez-Granados, Cristian
dc.date 2023
dc.date.accessioned 2025-11-03T12:17:30Z
dc.date.available 2025-11-03T12:17:30Z
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13193
dc.identifier 1474-919X
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/463516
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/24495
dc.description Automated recognition software is paramount for effective passive acoustic monitoring. BirdNET is a free and recently developed bird sound recognizer. I performed a literature review to evaluate the current applications and performance of BirdNET, which is growing in popularity but has been subject to few assessments, and to provide recommendations for future studies using BirdNET. Prior research has employed BirdNET for a wide range of purposes but few studies have linked BirdNET detections to ecological processes or real-world monitoring schemes. Among evaluated studies, average precision (% detections correctly identified) usually ranged around 72–85%, and recall rate (% target species vocalizations detected) ranged around 33–84%. Some studies did not assess BirdNET performance, which hampers the interpretation of the ecological results and may provide poorly informed decisions. Recommendations on how to evaluate BirdNET efficiency are provided. The impact of the confidence score threshold, a user-selected parameter as the minimum score for detections reported, on BirdNET output although variable among species is consistent. The use of high confidence score thresholds increases the percentage of detections correctly classified but lowers the proportion of calls and bird species detected. The selection of an optimal score may depend on the priorities of the user and research goals. BirdNET is a great tool for automated bird monitoring but it should be used with caution due to inherent challenges for automated bird identification. The continued refinement of BirdNET suggests further improvements in the coming years.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Wiley
dc.relation Reproducció del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13193
dc.relation International Journal of Avian Science, 2023, vol. 165, núm. 3, p. 1068-1075
dc.rights cc-by (c) The Author, 2023
dc.rights Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject Bird sound recognition
dc.subject Confidence score
dc.subject Convolutional neural network
dc.subject Passive acoustic monitoring
dc.subject Precision
dc.subject Recall rate
dc.title BirdNET: applications, performance, pitfalls and future opportunities
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


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