skip to main content
US FlagAn official website of the United States government
dot gov icon
Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
https lock icon
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( lock ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.


Search for: All records

Creators/Authors contains: "Syed, Ali Raza"

Note: When clicking on a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number, you will be taken to an external site maintained by the publisher. Some full text articles may not yet be available without a charge during the embargo (administrative interval).
What is a DOI Number?

Some links on this page may take you to non-federal websites. Their policies may differ from this site.

  1. Arctic boreal forests are warming at a rate 2–3 times faster than the global average. It is important to understand the effects of this warming on the activities of animals that migrate to these environments annually to reproduce. Acoustic sensors can monitor a wide area relatively cheaply, producing large amounts of data that need to be automatically analyzed. In such scenarios, only a small proportion of the recorded data can be labeled by hand, thus we explore two methods for utilizing labels more efficiently: self-supervised learning using wav2vec 2.0 and data valuation using k-nearest neighbors approximations to compute Shapley values. We confirm that data augmentation and global temporal pooling improve performance by more than 30%, demonstrate for the first time the utility of Shapley data valuation for audio classification, and find that our wav2vec 2.0 model trained from scratch does not improve performance. 
    more » « less