Browsing by Subject "bat audio analysis"

Bat monitoring is commonly based on audio analysis. By collecting audio recordings from large areas and analysing their content, it is possible estimate distributions of bat species and changes in them. It is easy to collect a large amount of audio recordings by leaving automatic recording units in nature and collecting them later. However, it takes a lot of time and effort to analyse these recordings. Because of that, there is a great need for automatic tools. We developed a program for detecting bat calls automatically from audio recordings. The program is designed for recordings that are collected from Finland with the AudioMoth recording device. Our method is based on a median clipping method that has previously shown promising results in the field of bird song detection. We add several modifications to the basic method in order to make it work well for our purpose. We use real-world field recordings that we have annotated to evaluate the performance of the detector and compare it to two other freely available programs (Kaleidoscope and Bat Detective). Our method showed good results and got the best F2-score in the comparison.