Insect Eavesdropper: Digital Monitoring of Crop Pests Via Vibrational Signals
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Presented the Insect Eavesdropper, an end-to-end bioacoustic pipeline combining contact-microphone acquisition, signal preprocessing, self-supervised feature extraction, and classification. The system achieved 96% precision on in-plant pest detection; the pitch won first place and a $5,000 award.