DORI-ONC

Warning: This is a pre-release version. Labels in this dataset are subject to change without notice.

This is a marine mammal vocalisation dataset primarily focused on the southern resident killer whale habitat. The portion of this data comes from Ocean Networks Canada, and is shared under a CC-BY License.

Alternatively, the data can be downloaded from Ocean Networks Canada Directly: https://data.oceannetworks.ca/SearchHydrophoneData

Marine mammal detections are conducted by an amature labeller with a Jaccard score of ~0.7 compared to an exper bioacoustician. Species and ecotype-level labels are not compared.

If you use this, please cite:

@misc{nestor2026positiveunlabelledactivelearningcurate,
      title={Positive-Unlabelled Active Learning to Curate a Dataset for Orca Resident Interpretation}, 
      author={Bret Nestor and Bohan Yao and Jasmine Moore and Jasper Kanes},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2602.09295},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09295}, 
}

As well as the specific DOIs for the subset of ONC data you use located in DORI.csv