NBM: an Open Dataset for the Acoustic Monitoring of Nocturnal Migratory Birds in Europe

This is the dataset presented in the paper "NBM: an Open Dataset for the Acoustic Monitoring of Nocturnal Migratory Birds in Europe", which can be found here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.03633.

File description

Files come in three directories: train_nbm_orig, train_nbm_xc and test.

Each is composed of a list of .wav files with its .txt annotations file in time and frequency.

The train dataset is composed of a total of  2,077 audio files and 13,359 annotations, for a total of ~38 hours of recording. Among these, 883 files were downloaded from Xeno-canto and finely hand-annotated.

Citation (Bibtex)

@article{airale2024nbm,
  title={NBM: an Open Dataset for the Acoustic Monitoring of Nocturnal Migratory Birds in Europe},
  author={Airale, Louis and Pajot, Adrien and Linossier, Juliette},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.03633},
  year={2024}
}