A paper in arXiv discusses the evaluation of bioacoustic deep learning feature extractors for clustering and novel class recognition.
The research aims to address the limitation of benchmarking classification scores, which is specific to the training data and does not allow comparison across different taxonomic groups.
The study analyzes the embeddings generated by 15 bioacoustic models to evaluate their adaptability and generalization potential.
Clustering and kNN classification are used to structure the embedding spaces, allowing comparison of feature extractors independent of their classifiers.