Other training data: humpback whales

Over the winter of 2021-2022, Emily Veirling worked with Val and Scott Veirs as a Beam Reach "extern" to describe humpback signals within the open data from Orcasound Lab hydrophones (Haro Strait, WA, USA). Leveraging her previous training with Helena Symonds and Paul Spong of OrcaLab, listening to humpbacks in Johnstone Strait (BC, Canada), Emily developed a new online Haro Humpback dictionary. Presented first to the DCLDE 2022 workshop in spring, 2022, the catalogue (catalog) contains 12 signals that she found to be most common in recordings made primarily in the late fall, presumably of male humpback whales beginning to vocalize prior to leaving the Salish Sea for tropical wintertime habitat in Hawaii and/or Mexico.

Emily's annotated data is part of Orcasound's AWS open data registry and is freely available under Orcasound's Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA. Please attribute any use of the dictionary and/or labeled data to: "Emily Vierling, 2022, Orcasound" with a link back to orcasound.net.

We are also sharing the training data that Val developed based on Emily's work. It includes audio clips and associated spectrograms...