Burooj Ghani

@naturalis.nl

Postdoctoral Fellow AI & Biodiversity
Naturalis Biodiversity Center

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, Ecology
502

Scholar Citations

10

Scholar h-index

11

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • bacpipe: a Python package to make bioacoustic deep learning models accessible
    VS Kather, S Haupert, B Ghani, D Stowell
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.11560 , 2026
    2026
  • A dataset of insect sounds from 459
    M Faiß, B Ghani, D Stowell
    in Scientific Data , 2026
    2026
  • A dataset of insect sounds from 459 species for bioacoustic machine learning
    M Faiß, B Ghani, D Stowell
    Scientific Data , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 10
  • Linear probing enables Ship-Radiated Noise recognition with pretrained audio embeddings
    HI Hummel, S Bhulai, R van der Mei, B Ghani
    Ecological Informatics, 103709 , 2026
    2026
  • Decodable but not structured: linear probing enables Underwater Acoustic Target Recognition with pretrained audio embeddings
    HI Hummel, S Bhulai, RD van der Mei, B Ghani
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.08358 , 2026
    2026
  • A list of sound producing European grasshoppers and the availability of their sounds in Xeno-canto
    B Odé, M Faiß, B Ghani, A Hochkirch, R Planqué, WP Vellinga, ...
    Articulata 40, 95-130 , 2025
    2025
  • Automated data curation for self-supervised learning in underwater acoustic analysis
    HI Hummel, S Bhulai, B Ghani, R van der Mei
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.20066 , 2025
    2025
  • Impact of transfer learning methods and dataset characteristics on generalization in birdsong classification
    B Ghani, VJ Kalkman, B Planqué, WP Vellinga, L Gill, D Stowell
    Scientific Reports 15 (1), 16273 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 29
  • Clustering and novel class recognition: evaluating bioacoustic deep learning feature extractors
    VS Kather, B Ghani, D Stowell
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.06710 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 12
  • AI species identification using image and sound recognition for citizen science, collection management and biomonitoring: From training pipeline to large-scale models
    L Hogeweg, N Yan, D Brunink, K Ezzaki-Chokri, W Gerritsen, R Pucci, ...
    Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 8, 6 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • Mind the domain gap: a systematic analysis on bioacoustic sound event detection
    J Liang, I Nolasco, B Ghani, H Phan, E Benetos, D Stowell
    2024 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 1257-1261 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 32
  • Efficient speech detection in environmental audio using acoustic recognition and knowledge distillation
    D Priebe, B Ghani, D Stowell
    Sensors 24 (7), 2046 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 11
  • DCASE 2024 Task5: Few-shot Bioacoustic Event Detection: Development Set
    B Ghani, I Nolasco, F Jensen, H Whitehead, H Pamula, S Singh, ...
    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10829604 , 2024
    2024
  • Learning to detect an animal sound from five examples
    I Nolasco, S Singh, V Morfi, V Lostanlen, A Strandburg-Peshkin, ...
    Ecological informatics 77, 102258 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 90
  • Feature embeddings from large-scale acoustic bird classifiers enable few-shot transfer learning
    B Ghani, T Denton, S Kahl, H Klinck
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.06292 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 17
  • Global birdsong embeddings enable superior transfer learning for bioacoustic classification
    B Ghani, T Denton, S Kahl, H Klinck
    Scientific Reports 13 (1), 22876 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 205
  • Few-shot bioacoustic event detection at the DCASE 2023 challenge
    I Nolasco, B Ghani, S Singh, E Vidana-Villa, E Grout, J Morford, ...
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.09223 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 44
  • Classification of group-specific variations in songs within House Wren species using machine learning models
    B Ghani, H Klinck, S Hallerberg
    Ecological Informatics 74, 101946 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 8
  • DCASE 2023 Task5: Few-shot Bioacoustic Event Detection: Evaluation set
    I Nolasco, S Singh, E Vidaña-Vila, H Whitehead, E Grout, F Jensen, ...
    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7879692 , 2023
    2023
  • Global birdsong embeddings enable superior transfer learning for bioacoustic classification. Sci. Rep. 13 (1), 22876
    B Ghani, T Denton, S Kahl, H Klinck
    2023
    Citations: 5

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Global birdsong embeddings enable superior transfer learning for bioacoustic classification
    B Ghani, T Denton, S Kahl, H Klinck
    Scientific Reports 13 (1), 22876 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 205
  • Learning to detect an animal sound from five examples
    I Nolasco, S Singh, V Morfi, V Lostanlen, A Strandburg-Peshkin, ...
    Ecological informatics 77, 102258 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 90
  • Few-shot bioacoustic event detection at the DCASE 2023 challenge
    I Nolasco, B Ghani, S Singh, E Vidana-Villa, E Grout, J Morford, ...
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.09223 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 44
  • Mind the domain gap: a systematic analysis on bioacoustic sound event detection
    J Liang, I Nolasco, B Ghani, H Phan, E Benetos, D Stowell
    2024 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 1257-1261 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 32
  • Impact of transfer learning methods and dataset characteristics on generalization in birdsong classification
    B Ghani, VJ Kalkman, B Planqué, WP Vellinga, L Gill, D Stowell
    Scientific Reports 15 (1), 16273 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 29
  • A randomized bag-of-birds approach to study robustness of automated audio based bird species classification
    B Ghani, S Hallerberg
    Applied Sciences 11 (19), 9226 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 20
  • Feature embeddings from large-scale acoustic bird classifiers enable few-shot transfer learning
    B Ghani, T Denton, S Kahl, H Klinck
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.06292 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 17
  • Clustering and novel class recognition: evaluating bioacoustic deep learning feature extractors
    VS Kather, B Ghani, D Stowell
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.06710 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 12
  • Efficient speech detection in environmental audio using acoustic recognition and knowledge distillation
    D Priebe, B Ghani, D Stowell
    Sensors 24 (7), 2046 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 11
  • A dataset of insect sounds from 459 species for bioacoustic machine learning
    M Faiß, B Ghani, D Stowell
    Scientific Data , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 10
  • Global birdsong embeddings enable superior transfer learning for bioacoustic classification. Sci. Rep. 13, 22876
    B Ghani, T Denton, S Kahl, H Klinck
    2023
    Citations: 10
  • Classification of group-specific variations in songs within House Wren species using machine learning models
    B Ghani, H Klinck, S Hallerberg
    Ecological Informatics 74, 101946 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 8
  • AI species identification using image and sound recognition for citizen science, collection management and biomonitoring: From training pipeline to large-scale models
    L Hogeweg, N Yan, D Brunink, K Ezzaki-Chokri, W Gerritsen, R Pucci, ...
    Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 8, 6 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • Global birdsong embeddings enable superior transfer learning for bioacoustic classification. Sci. Rep. 13 (1), 22876
    B Ghani, T Denton, S Kahl, H Klinck
    2023
    Citations: 5
  • Machine learning-based analysis of bird vocalizations
    B Ghani
    2022
    Citations: 3
  • bacpipe: a Python package to make bioacoustic deep learning models accessible
    VS Kather, S Haupert, B Ghani, D Stowell
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.11560 , 2026
    2026
  • A dataset of insect sounds from 459
    M Faiß, B Ghani, D Stowell
    in Scientific Data , 2026
    2026
  • Linear probing enables Ship-Radiated Noise recognition with pretrained audio embeddings
    HI Hummel, S Bhulai, R van der Mei, B Ghani
    Ecological Informatics, 103709 , 2026
    2026
  • Decodable but not structured: linear probing enables Underwater Acoustic Target Recognition with pretrained audio embeddings
    HI Hummel, S Bhulai, RD van der Mei, B Ghani
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.08358 , 2026
    2026
  • A list of sound producing European grasshoppers and the availability of their sounds in Xeno-canto
    B Odé, M Faiß, B Ghani, A Hochkirch, R Planqué, WP Vellinga, ...
    Articulata 40, 95-130 , 2025
    2025