ChiRO

Chiroptera Recognition Operations (ChiRO) is an end-to-end pipeline for detecting bat echolocation calls in noisy, weakly-labeled field recordings, developed for the BSc thesis “Development of a deep learning model for the bioacoustic classification of bats inhabiting Switzerland”.

Quickstart

# 1. clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/Ristafan/ChiRO.git
cd ChiRO

python -m venv chiro_env
source chiro_env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Citation

If you use this code in your research, please cite the following:

@bachelorthesis{Fahnrich2025,
author = {Fähnrich, Martin},
title = {Development of a deep learning model for the bioacoustic classification of bats inhabiting Switzerland},
school = {University of Zurich, Department of Informatics},
year = {2025},
type = {Bachelor Thesis},
month = {July},
}