NIPS4Bplus: a richly annotated birdsong audio dataset

Recent advances in birdsong detection and classification have approached a limit due to the lack of fully annotated record- ings. In this paper, we present NIPS4Bplus, the first richly annotated birdsong audio dataset, that is comprised of record- ings containing bird vocalisations along with their active species tags plus the temporal annotations acquired for them. Statistical information about the recordings, their species spe- cific tags and their temporal annotations are presented along with example uses. NIPS4Bplus could be used in various ecoacoustic tasks, such as training models for bird popula- tion monitoring, species classification, birdsong vocalisation detection and classification.