README.md

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license: mit
task_categories:
- audio-classification
language:
- en
tags:
- biology
- dog
pretty_name: BpAE
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
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## 📦 Dataset Description

This dataset is part of the **Barkopedia Challenge**
🔗 [https://uta-acl2.github.io/barkopedia.html](https://uta-acl2.github.io/barkopedia.html)

Check Training Data here:👉 [ArlingtonCL2/Barkopedia_DOG_BREED_CLASSIFICATION_DATASET](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ArlingtonCL2/Barkopedia_DOG_BREED_CLASSIFICATION_DATASET)

This dataset contains **29,347 audio clips** of dog barks labeled by **dog breed**.
The audio samples come from **156 individual dogs** across **5 dog breeds**:

- **shiba inu**
- **husky**
- **chihuahua**
- **german shepherd**
- **pitbull**

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### 📊 Per-Breed Summary

| Breed            | Train | Public Test | Private Test | Test (Total) | Total  | Total % |
|------------------|-------|-------------|--------------|--------------|--------|---------|
| chihuahua        | 4,427 | 154         | 231          | 385          | 4,812  | 16.40%  |
| german shepherd  | 3,514 | 219         | 329          | 548          | 4,062  | 13.84%  |
| husky            | 8,769 | 110         | 166          | 276          | 9,045  | 30.82%  |
| pitbull          | 2,075 | 304         | 457          | 761          | 2,836  | 9.66%   |
| shiba inu        | 8,110 | 192         | 290          | 482          | 8,592  | 29.28%  |
| **Total**        | **26,895** | **980**       | **1,472**      | **2,452**      | **29,347** | **100%**  |

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### 🐾 Labels

Each audio clip is labeled with the **dog breed** it belongs to.

The labels were **manually verified** by us.

The `train_labels.csv` includes:

- `audio_id`: Filename of the audio clip (e.g., `bark_24248.wav`)
- `breed`: Dog breed (e.g., `shiba inu`, `pitbull`)

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### 🧪 Evaluation Setup

- **Training set**: **26,895 audio clips**
- **Test set**: **2,452 audio clips**
  - Includes:
    - **980 clips (~40%)** for **public leaderboard**
    - **1,472 clips (~60%)** for **private leaderboard**

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