Papers, datasets, and talks documenting the A3EM platform and its results.
Jean, D., Wittemyer, G., Hedgecock, W., Turner, J., Lédeczi, Á., & Kalmár, G. (2025). Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, 14(4), 1–25.
This foundational system paper documents the sensor hardware, configurable firmware, unsupervised VAE-based adaptive filter, and the project's initial field deployments.
doi.org/10.3390/jsan14040066 ↗A first annotated dataset of elephant vocalizations — over 1,000 manually verified calls — is in preparation for public release with a citable DOI.
An accepted conference presentation on the project's field results is scheduled for the 2026 African Bioacoustics Community Conference.
The team was invited to give a tech talk on the project at WildLabs, a global conservation-technology network of more than 10,000 members across 120 countries.
A complete, continuously updated listing of journal articles, conference papers, and datasets associated with this award is maintained in the NSF Public Access Repository (NSF-PAR).
Hardware design files and all software developed under the project are open-sourced under the vu-a3em GitHub organization. See the Code page for a repository-by-repository breakdown.
The project's home at Vanderbilt's Institute for Software Integrated Systems: isis.vanderbilt.edu ↗