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Data annotation for spectrogram extraction

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale

Research direction

Start by reviewing the waveform files and the existing extraction or annotation workflow, though the issue does not name specific files or entry points. Done means annotating about 1,000 files with start and end points for every pulse, while recording harmonics, echoes, and overlapping chirps across the specified bat species.

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Description

We need to be able to extract chirps and pulses from a waveform file, ideally using traditional signal processing techniques to detect and segment each chirp. To do this without any machine learning, we have used qualitative distinctions so far but would rather make data-driven decisions on how to best extract a compressed representation. This effort would require annotating ~30 files for each of the 34 North American bat species (~1,000 files total).

The primary task would be to annotate every pulse and place a start / end point on each detection. Annotators would need to note any harmonics, and echos, or overlapping chirps.

Dominant language
Python
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10
Forks
3
Avg merge
5d 13h
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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