Multi-label bird classification using an ensemble classifier with simple features

For the Multi-label Bird Species Classification task in NIPS 2013, we design an ensemble classifier using simple audio features extracted from the given audio clips. The main difference of our approach is that we do not segment the audio or use local features and still achieve comparable results to the top teams of the challenge utilizing complex engineered features.

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