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BirdCLEF 2026 is part of the LifeCLEF 2026 benchmark series and focuses on identifying wildlife species from passive acoustic monitoring recordings. The challenge is centered on audio collected in the ...

What happens when you sit in a room with absolutely no sound Posted: March 16, 2026 | Last updated: March 16, 2026 Anechoic chambers are designed to absorb nearly all sound, creating one of the ...

Environmental groups in Connecticut are sounding the alarm after the Environmental Protection Agency recently rescinded several longstanding environmental regulations, including gutting the 2009 ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AECOM (ACM), the trusted global infrastructure leader, today announced it has been selected by Sound Transit to deliver design, planning and environmental services, along ...

Abstract: Environmental Sound Recognition (ESR) is an essential task in audio analysis, involving the identification and classification of sounds from various environmental contexts. This study ...

Abstract: Environmental Sound Classification (ESC) is becoming an ever increasingly important application in different scenarios, such as smart cities, autonomous systems, safety, and industrial ...

Dolby is a tech company that develops proprietary audio and imaging technologies that the audiovisual industry uses for film, TV, streaming, gaming, and hardware. While Dolby isn't the only audio ...

The ESC-50 dataset is a labeled collection of 2000 environmental audio recordings suitable for benchmarking methods of environmental sound classification. The dataset consists of 5-second-long ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Vernon Stoner has grown accustomed to the rhythmic industrial symphony outside his Olympia waterfront home. The noise recently heard on Puget Sound is the groan of hydraulics, the ...

The tidal marshes of Sunken Meadow State Park once provided inviting habitat for salt marsh sparrows, small birds that nest among the coastal grasses just above the high tide line. But over the years, ...