Browsing by Subject "automated species identification"

Automatic bird sound recognition has been studied by computer scientists since late 1990s. Various techniques have been exploited, but no general method, that could even nearly match the performance of a human expert, has been developed yet. In this thesis, the subject is approached by reviewing alternative methods for cross-correlation as a similarity measure between two signals in template-based bird sound recognition models. Template-specific binary classification models are fit with different methods and their performance is compared. The contemplated methods are template averaging and procession before applying cross-correlation, use of texture features as additional predictors, and feature extraction through transfer learning with convolutional neural networks. It is shown that the classification performance of template-specific models can be improved by template refinement and utilizing neural networks’ ability to automatically extract relevant features from bird sound spectrograms.