JJBA 2023 | June 28-30, 2023

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Oral communications
Oral communications of 13 minutes (+5 minutes of questions) will be divided into 6 scientific sessions. Participants whose abstract will be accepted by the organizing committee will have the opportunity to present their recent scientific results.

Plenary Conferences
Three plenary conferences of 45 minutes (+15 minutes of questions) will be held by experienced bioacousticians. These conferences will provide a unique opportunity for students and young researchers to attend presentation of major works in their field and exchange with established researchers.

Speakers

Katarzyna Pisanski

Her research focuses on understanding the origins, development, mechanisms and functions of acoustic communication in mammals, including our own species.
She has had great success as a researcherwith over 75 peer-reviewed research articles and chapters (half of which she is first or last author) published in leading journals in general science, psychology, acoustics and biology, including Nature, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Nature Communications, ... Today, it has more than 3400 citations.
She will do us the great honor of being present at this event and will be a source of inspiration for many students who will be delighted to talk with her.
She is now a permanent researcher at the CNRS, works at the Laboratory of Language Dynamics at the University of Lyon and in close collaboration with the Bioacoustics Research Laboratory of ENES.

Yves Bas

Yves Bas's research lies at the interface between ecology, acoustics and computer science. He has devoted more and more time to the development of innovative and efficient software and algorithms to overcome the constraints of analyzing bioacoustic pa data.ssives (long-term acoustic recordings). Today, the tools he has developed are used systematically in the monitoring of many species, in particular bats. Bioacoustics is a multidisciplinary science and the research carried out by Yves Bas will make it possible to understand how, by harmonizing these different skills, high-performance systems can be developed.
Yves Bas is currently a researcher at the Natural History Museum in Paris.

Julie Elie

The Emerging Bioacousticians days will also have the honor to welcome Julie Elie (University of California, Berkeley, USA) as a plenary speaker. She is a computational neuroethologist with a passion for vocal communication. She is interested in how and why animals and humans make communicative sounds. For the past 15 years, she has been studying the vocal and social behavior of a bird: the zebra finch. She has focused her research on the perception of social vocalizations and their role in social bonding in that species. More recently she started to explore vocal communication in the Egyptian Fruit-bat, investigating the neural pathways of vocal production and the level of vocal plasticity in that species. Her work combines behavioral and neurophysiological experiments with advanced analysis in bioacoustic and neural modeling.

Workshops

The symposium will also offer different scientific workshops enabling us to work together on the integration of technologies and recent tools (sound signal processing software, recording equipment, biodiversity monitoring protocols, etc.). Driven by specialists in the field, these interactive workshops aim to give participants new study perspectives.

Lorène Jeantet

Deep learning and bioacoustics

Tremendous progress has been made in bioacoustics research via deep learning algorithms. Recent scientific articles focusing on the use and development of bioacoustic classification models all use convolutional neural networks. This skills showcase will provide participants with fundamental knowledge in convolutional neural networks to better understand how they are implemented to create an acoustic classifier model.Participants will be introduced to theoretical basics of 2D convolutional neural networks. This will be followed by an introduction to audio processing in Python and finally, participants will build a convolutional neural network to classify vocalisation events of the critically endangered Hainan gibbons. The same approach could be applied to species.

General assembly
A general assembly will be helded on Thursday, June 29 to discuss the future of the colloquium and ensure its sustainability. The objective of this general assembly is to present the colloquium project as a whole, to discuss the points to be improved based on the 1st edition and to recruit volunteers to support the organization of next editions.

Social events
Regular breaks will punctuate the conference to promote scientific exchanges. A dinner of local specialties and a gala dinner will also be organized in order to create links between the participants. The transdisciplinarity being at the heart of this symposium project, the objective is to facilitate exchanges between scientists from different backgrounds in a friendly, enthusiastic and productive atmosphere.

Sensory Neuro-Ethology Team

The young bioacousticians of the Sensory Neuro-Ethology Team (ENES) will ensure the organization of this symposium.

ENES research themes are organized around bioacoustics. Rooted in the ethology, ENES also deals with thematics of neuroscience and animal physiology. More recently, the work of the laboratory is oriented towards subjects specific to ecology through population monitoring studies and the impact of noise pollution on these populations.