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Search

Searching allows you to efficiently find similar recordings in your project. In the previous step, we gathered target recordings for our focal species.

With our target recordings in hand, we can search for ARU windows that are similar to our target recordings. Given that these found windows are similar to recordings of our focal species, we have a high likelihood that the similar windows contain the same focal species. Hence, we are able to quickly search for particular species in our ARU dataset and mark them as possible examples.

After searching, all target recordings will be marked as finished to prevent searching the ARU windows with the same target recordings over and over. If you want to search for more recordings, gather more target recordings and then try searching again.

Usage​

To search, use the following command:

perch-analyzer search \ 
    --data_dir=<data-directory> \
    --num_per_target_recording=<number>
  • data_dir is the directory used to setup a project.
  • num_per_target_recording is the number of windows