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A hobby bird-audio project led the poster to study bioacoustics, audio processing, and bird courses.
They are manually labeling bird calls to train custom species-detection models for Rwanda.
The work aims to fill gaps left by existing tools like BirdNET, which can miss some species.
It highlights how custom AI can support biodiversity monitoring and conservation.