{
  "id": 575591,
  "title": "Request: consider exporting your model to help conservation teams use it!",
  "url": "/competitions/birdclef-2025/discussion/575591",
  "author_name": "Kate Reed",
  "post_date": "2025-04-29T17:38:46.203000",
  "votes": 16,
  "comment_count": 0,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hello BirdCLEF participants! </p>\n<p>I'm a developer on the <a href=\"https://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/raven-pro/\" target=\"_blank\">Raven&nbsp;Software team</a> at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, one of the hosting organizations. We're working on a new&nbsp;Raven&nbsp;app designed to help ecologists deploy bioacoustic models for their acoustic monitoring projects, with no coding skills or internet connectivity required. To run bioacoustics models across a variety of deployment contexts, they need to be exported into a serialized format.</p>\n<p><strong>We would love to test BirdCLEF models saved in one of the following formats: TensorFlow (SavedModel), PyTorch (TorchScript), or ONNX. If you’d like to make your competition project directly impactful for real-world conservation projects, please consider uploading a version of your model saved in one of these formats to Kaggle Models.</strong></p>\n<p>Thanks for considering helping us out with this! Feel free to reach me with any questions at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:k.reed@cornell.edu\" target=\"_blank\">k.reed@cornell.edu</a>.</p>",
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      "id": 3189747,
      "postDate": "2025-04-29T17:38:46.203Z",
      "content": "<p>Hello BirdCLEF participants! </p>\n<p>I'm a developer on the <a href=\"https://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/raven-pro/\" target=\"_blank\">Raven&nbsp;Software team</a> at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, one of the hosting organizations. We're working on a new&nbsp;Raven&nbsp;app designed to help ecologists deploy bioacoustic models for their acoustic monitoring projects, with no coding skills or internet connectivity required. To run bioacoustics models across a variety of deployment contexts, they need to be exported into a serialized format.</p>\n<p><strong>We would love to test BirdCLEF models saved in one of the following formats: TensorFlow (SavedModel), PyTorch (TorchScript), or ONNX. If you’d like to make your competition project directly impactful for real-world conservation projects, please consider uploading a version of your model saved in one of these formats to Kaggle Models.</strong></p>\n<p>Thanks for considering helping us out with this! Feel free to reach me with any questions at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:k.reed@cornell.edu\" target=\"_blank\">k.reed@cornell.edu</a>.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hello BirdCLEF participants! \n\nI'm a developer on the [Raven Software team](https://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/raven-pro/) at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, one of the hosting organizations. We're working on a new Raven app designed to help ecologists deploy bioacoustic models for their acoustic monitoring projects, with no coding skills or internet connectivity required. To run bioacoustics models across a variety of deployment contexts, they need to be exported into a serialized format.\n\n**We would love to test BirdCLEF models saved in one of the following formats: TensorFlow (SavedModel), PyTorch (TorchScript), or ONNX. If you’d like to make your competition project directly impactful for real-world conservation projects, please consider uploading a version of your model saved in one of these formats to Kaggle Models.**\n\nThanks for considering helping us out with this! Feel free to reach me with any questions at [k.reed@cornell.edu](mailto:k.reed@cornell.edu).",
      "votes": 16
    }
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    "3189747": "Hello BirdCLEF participants! \n\nI'm a developer on the [Raven Software team](https://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/raven-pro/) at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, one of the hosting organizations. We're working on a new Raven app designed to help ecologists deploy bioacoustic models for their acoustic monitoring projects, with no coding skills or internet connectivity required. To run bioacoustics models across a variety of deployment contexts, they need to be exported into a serialized format.\n\n**We would love to test BirdCLEF models saved in one of the following formats: TensorFlow (SavedModel), PyTorch (TorchScript), or ONNX. If you’d like to make your competition project directly impactful for real-world conservation projects, please consider uploading a version of your model saved in one of these formats to Kaggle Models.**\n\nThanks for considering helping us out with this! Feel free to reach me with any questions at [k.reed@cornell.edu](mailto:k.reed@cornell.edu)."
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