Ricard Marxer
ricard.bsky.social
Ricard Marxer
@ricard.bsky.social
ml, audio, cv, nlp, speech, bioacoustics // Assoc. Prof. at Université de Toulon, researcher at LIS CNRS UMR 7020, director of http://www.master-mir.eu in marine robotics and AI
We provide:
🔧 A tool with pretrained models to estimate F0 on new data
📊 An annotated dataset of 250k+ vocalisations
June 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Key findings:
✅ Neural network models show strong potential
✅ Supervised models generalise to unseen species
✅ Self-supervised models can perform on par with supervised ones in some cases
✅ As expected, performance correlates with F0 saliency
June 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The diversity of bioacoustic signals—in frequency range, harmonicity, SNR, etc.—makes F0 estimation particularly challenging.

We study how well #MIR F0 estimation transfers to non-human vocalisations, benchmarking SOTA models across 14 taxa:
June 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
📢 New paper!

F0 estimation is a classic task in the Music Information Retrieval (#MIR) community. Yet, it's much less studied in bioacoustics—despite its frequent use to describe animal sounds.

Images from doi.org/10.1038/srep... doi.org/10.1098/rspb... doi.org/10.3389/fmar...
June 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Our study on #orcas vocal complexity!

doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

We analyse #bioacoustics recordings spanning 5 years of wild orcas. DL classification and subsequent complexity measures are contrasted to pod sizes, to approach the social complexity hypothesis in #cetaceans

Good collab Best et al!
June 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Today Santiago Cuervo and I are presenting our study on "Scaling Properties of Speech Language Models" at #EMNLP2024. More details soon. Can't wait? come chat with us at Poster session D.
November 13, 2024 at 2:37 PM
So happy to finally be presenting this work with Clementin Boittiaux et al!

SUCRe uses SfM/MVS dense reconstruction to recover colors from underwater images.

🔗 clementinboittiaux.github.io/sucre/

To appear at #3DV2024 in March.

#underwater #deepsea #ai #machinelearning #computervision
March 1, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Become a 4th wave student of our #ErasmusMundus #MSc in Marine and maritime Intelligent Robotics (MIR)

An international program combining #AI and #Robotics for #Ocean applications 🧠🤖🌊

Applications open tomorrow October 28th 2023

More here: www.master-mir.eu/emjmd-mir-ne...
October 27, 2023 at 12:20 PM