This workshop follows a "mini-conference" format, and will explicitly offer opportunities for free discussion between researchers.

  • Each talk may be followed by a brainstorming session whereby participants and speakers will explore possible solutions. Their conclusions and outcomes will be presented at the end of the workshop.
  • The second day includes sessions on the Technical Challenge for the avian and marine mammal data sets.

Program (due to last changes, be sure to refresh the upload of this page)

Day 1 : Thursday the 20th of june

08:30 Opening Session/Welcome Why ICML4B? H. Glotin and C. Clark
08:45 Keynote Speaker C. Clark 'Advanced High-performance-computing for Mapping Marine Mammals overs ecologically meaningful scales'
09:20 Keynote Speaker O. Tchernichovski "Physiological brain processes that underlie song learning"
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Keynote Speaker Y. Bengio 'Deep Learning : Looking Forward'
11:15 Keynote Speaker X. Halkias 'Classification of Mysticete : Extracting spectro-temporal structures using Sparse Architectures' (slides .pdf)
11:55 Memory photography
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Keynote Speaker H. Glotin 'Sparse coding for deformed marine or terrestrian events / Bird or Whale Cocktail Party 3D Tracking'
14:30 Accepted paper Segretier et al. 'Song-based Classification techniques for Endangered Bird Conservation'
14:55 Keynote Speaker D. Sheldon et al. 'Machine Learning and Ecology'
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Accepted paper Briggs et al. 'Multi Label Classif Chains for Bird Sound'
16:30 Keynote Speaker G. Pavan 'Monitoring bioacoustic diversity for research, conservation and education' 1/2
17:10 Poster and short papers Popescu et al. 'Large Scale Classification'
Dugan et al. 'High Perf Computing for Bioacoustics' Mishchenko et al. 'Target Optimization funct for bird songs'
Smirnov, 'CNN for whale classification'

Day 2 : Friday the 21th of june

08:30 Keynote Speaker P. Dugan 'Pratical considerations for high performance on continuous passive acoustic data'
09:05 Accepted paper Pourhomayou et al. 'Human Scoring joint to ANN for classif.'
09:30 Accepted paper Abousleiman et al. 'Whale Classification'
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Keynote Speaker G. Pavan 'Challenges in monitoring / indexing bioacoustic diversity' Demo (2/2)
11:30 Accepted paper Pourhomayoun et al. 'Classification on continuous region'
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Accepted paper Paris et al. 'Sparse Coding for whale localization'
14:30 Accepted paper Popescu et al. 'Pulse Classification'
15:00 Accepted paper Ness et al. 'Orca Big Data'
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Challenge Results 1/2 Bird song classification : Methods and results of the 78 participants, Prize, and next..?
Benetos et al. working note
Briggs et al. working note
Turner et al. working note (5th)
Stowell al. working note
16:30 Challenge Results 2/2 Whale Challenge : Methods, Results (136 participants), Prize, and next..?
17:00 General discussion and closing Organizers and all Participants