An invasive species model and dataset for bioacoustic monitoring of common brushtail possum
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a critical tool in the monitoring and conservation of native species but until now its use in the detection of invasive species has been under-utilised. We present the first publicly available dataset of invasive common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) vocalisations including 3500 annotated field recording segments. This study presents an automatic classification model designed and fine-tuned to detect the presence/absence of possums, achieving 98.4% test set accuracy and F1 score of 0.983.