Publications

2025

1. Pre-Print

   Data-driven Sampling Strategies for Fine-Tuning Bird Detection Models

   Corentin Bernard, Ben McEwen, Benjamin Cretois, and 3 more authors

   bioRxiv, 2025

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   @article{bernard2025data,
     title = {Data-driven Sampling Strategies for Fine-Tuning Bird Detection Models},
     author = {Bernard, Corentin and McEwen, Ben and Cretois, Benjamin and Glotin, Herve and Stowell, Dan and Marxer, Ricard},
     journal = {bioRxiv},
     pages = {2025--10},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
   }

2. Pre-Print

   Stratified Active Learning for Spatiotemporal Generalisation in Large-Scale Bioacoustic Monitoring

   Ben McEwen, Corentin Bernard, and Dan Stowell

   bioRxiv, 2025

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   @article{mcewen2025stratified,
     title = {Stratified Active Learning for Spatiotemporal Generalisation in Large-Scale Bioacoustic Monitoring},
     author = {McEwen, Ben and Bernard, Corentin and Stowell, Dan},
     journal = {bioRxiv},
     pages = {2025--09},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
   }

2024

1. Thesis

   Computational Bioacoustics for the Detection of Rare Acoustic Events

   Ben McEwen

   2024

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   @book{mcewen2024thesis,
     title = {Computational Bioacoustics for the Detection of Rare Acoustic Events},
     author = {McEwen, Ben},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {University of Canterbury},
   }

2. Journal Paper

   Active Few-Shot Learning for Rare Bioacoustic Feature Annotation

   Ben McEwen

   Journal of Ecological Informatics, 2024

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   @article{mcewen2024active,
     title = {Active Few-Shot Learning for Rare Bioacoustic Feature Annotation},
     author = {McEwen, Ben},
     year = {2024},
     journal = {Journal of Ecological Informatics},
   }

3. Pre-Print

   The Effects of Noise Reduction on Bioacoustic Segmentation and Classification

   Ben McEwen

   2024

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   @article{mcewen2024noise,
     title = {The Effects of Noise Reduction on Bioacoustic Segmentation and Classification},
     author = {McEwen, Ben},
     year = {2024},
   }

4. Journal Paper

   An Invasive Species Model and Dataset for Bioacoustic Monitoring of Common Brushtail Possum

   Ben McEwen

   New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 2024

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   @article{mcewen2024dataset,
     title = {An Invasive Species Model and Dataset for Bioacoustic Monitoring of Common Brushtail Possum},
     author = {McEwen, Ben},
     year = {2024},
     journal = {New Zealand Journal of Ecology},
   }

2023

1. Conference Paper

   An Improved Computational Bioacoustic Monitoring Approach for Detecting Sparse Features

   Ben McEwen

   Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2023

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   @article{mcewen2023sparse,
     title = {An Improved Computational Bioacoustic Monitoring Approach for Detecting Sparse Features},
     author = {McEwen, Ben},
     year = {2023},
     journal = {Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
   }

2. Journal Paper

   Automatic Noise Reduction of Extremely Sparse Vocalisations for Bioacoustic Monitoring

   Ben McEwen

   Journal of Ecological Informatics, 2023

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   @article{mcewen2023noise,
     title = {Automatic Noise Reduction of Extremely Sparse Vocalisations for Bioacoustic Monitoring},
     author = {McEwen, Ben},
     year = {2023},
     journal = {Journal of Ecological Informatics},
   }

2021

1. Conference Paper

   Predictive State Estimation of Invasive Predators using Low Resolution Thermal Cameras

   Ben McEwen

   International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ), 2021

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   @article{mcewen2023noisf,
     title = {Predictive State Estimation of Invasive Predators using Low Resolution Thermal Cameras},
     author = {McEwen, Ben},
     year = {2021},
     journal = {International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ)},
   }