{
  "id": 394358,
  "title": "Using data from previous competitions",
  "url": "/competitions/birdclef-2023/discussion/394358",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2023-03-13T08:48:27.748578400Z",
  "votes": 13,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Are we allowed to use data from past competitions? <br>\nAnd how about external data like background noisy?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "2179535",
      "postDate": "03/13/2023 08:48:27",
      "content": "<p>Are we allowed to use data from past competitions? <br>\nAnd how about external data like background noisy?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Are we allowed to use data from past competitions? \nAnd how about external data like background noisy?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "2179605",
      "postDate": "03/13/2023 09:32:31",
      "content": "<p>Yes, absolutely. The species overlap might be minimal though.</p>\n<p>In case you think it is useful, we extended, polished and published the hidden test data from previous years. Again, the species overlap is minimal, but it might be helpful to adapt to soundscape recording conditions.</p>\n<p>You can find the data on Zenodo:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://zenodo.org/record/7525805\" target=\"_blank\">A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the southern Sierra Nevada mountain range</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://zenodo.org/record/7525349\" target=\"_blank\">A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from neotropical coffee farms in Colombia and Costa Rica</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://zenodo.org/record/7079124\" target=\"_blank\">A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Southwestern Amazon Basin</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://zenodo.org/record/7079380\" target=\"_blank\">A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Northeastern United States</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://zenodo.org/record/7078499\" target=\"_blank\">A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Island of Hawai'i</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://zenodo.org/record/7050014\" target=\"_blank\">A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Western United States</a></p></li>\n</ul>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yes, absolutely. The species overlap might be minimal though.\n\nIn case you think it is useful, we extended, polished and published the hidden test data from previous years. Again, the species overlap is minimal, but it might be helpful to adapt to soundscape recording conditions.\n\nYou can find the data on Zenodo:\n\n- [A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the southern Sierra Nevada mountain range](https://zenodo.org/record/7525805)\n\n- [A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from neotropical coffee farms in Colombia and Costa Rica](https://zenodo.org/record/7525349)\n\n- [A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Southwestern Amazon Basin](https://zenodo.org/record/7079124)\n\n- [A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Northeastern United States](https://zenodo.org/record/7079380)\n\n- [A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Island of Hawai'i](https://zenodo.org/record/7078499)\n\n- [A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Western United States](https://zenodo.org/record/7050014)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "2189126",
      "postDate": "03/20/2023 09:24:00",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/stefankahl\" target=\"_blank\">@stefankahl</a> thanks for sharing, </p>\n<p>do you know which samples has been used for which competition/year (only testing or also training)? </p>\n<p>In these dataset there is also the target \"????\" is it considered as \"nocall\" ? </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "stefankahl thanks for sharing, \n\ndo you know which samples has been used for which competition/year (only testing or also training)? \n\nIn these dataset there is also the target \"????\" is it considered as \"nocall\" ?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "2193284",
      "postDate": "03/23/2023 07:37:18",
      "content": "<p>There's a short summary that comes with each dataset, it highlights which competition it was used in. As I mentioned above, we extended and polished these datasets, so there is no 100% overlap, the \"????\" labels are one example for an addition and usually indicate very faint sounds or non-birds.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "There's a short summary that comes with each dataset, it highlights which competition it was used in. As I mentioned above, we extended and polished these datasets, so there is no 100% overlap, the \"????\" labels are one example for an addition and usually indicate very faint sounds or non-birds.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 2179605,
      "author_name": "stefankahl",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/13/2023 09:32:31",
      "content": "<p>Yes, absolutely. The species overlap might be minimal though.</p>\n<p>In case you think it is useful, we extended, polished and published the hidden test data from previous years. Again, the species overlap is minimal, but it might be helpful to adapt to soundscape recording conditions.</p>\n<p>You can find the data on Zenodo:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://zenodo.org/record/7525805\" target=\"_blank\">A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the southern Sierra Nevada mountain range</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://zenodo.org/record/7525349\" target=\"_blank\">A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from neotropical coffee farms in Colombia and Costa Rica</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://zenodo.org/record/7079124\" target=\"_blank\">A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Southwestern Amazon Basin</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://zenodo.org/record/7079380\" target=\"_blank\">A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Northeastern United States</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://zenodo.org/record/7078499\" target=\"_blank\">A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Island of Hawai'i</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://zenodo.org/record/7050014\" target=\"_blank\">A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Western United States</a></p></li>\n</ul>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2189126,
          "author_name": "ludovick",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/20/2023 09:24:00",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/stefankahl\" target=\"_blank\">@stefankahl</a> thanks for sharing, </p>\n<p>do you know which samples has been used for which competition/year (only testing or also training)? </p>\n<p>In these dataset there is also the target \"????\" is it considered as \"nocall\" ? </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 2193284,
              "author_name": "stefankahl",
              "author_url": "",
              "post_date": "03/23/2023 07:37:18",
              "content": "<p>There's a short summary that comes with each dataset, it highlights which competition it was used in. As I mentioned above, we extended and polished these datasets, so there is no 100% overlap, the \"????\" labels are one example for an addition and usually indicate very faint sounds or non-birds.</p>",
              "votes": null,
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            }
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    }
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    "2179535": "Are we allowed to use data from past competitions? \nAnd how about external data like background noisy?",
    "2179605": "Yes, absolutely. The species overlap might be minimal though.\n\nIn case you think it is useful, we extended, polished and published the hidden test data from previous years. Again, the species overlap is minimal, but it might be helpful to adapt to soundscape recording conditions.\n\nYou can find the data on Zenodo:\n\n- [A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the southern Sierra Nevada mountain range](https://zenodo.org/record/7525805)\n\n- [A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from neotropical coffee farms in Colombia and Costa Rica](https://zenodo.org/record/7525349)\n\n- [A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Southwestern Amazon Basin](https://zenodo.org/record/7079124)\n\n- [A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Northeastern United States](https://zenodo.org/record/7079380)\n\n- [A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Island of Hawai'i](https://zenodo.org/record/7078499)\n\n- [A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Western United States](https://zenodo.org/record/7050014)",
    "2189126": "stefankahl thanks for sharing, \n\ndo you know which samples has been used for which competition/year (only testing or also training)? \n\nIn these dataset there is also the target \"????\" is it considered as \"nocall\" ?",
    "2193284": "There's a short summary that comes with each dataset, it highlights which competition it was used in. As I mentioned above, we extended and polished these datasets, so there is no 100% overlap, the \"????\" labels are one example for an addition and usually indicate very faint sounds or non-birds."
  },
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}