Title
Change point detection methodology used for segmenting bird songs
Abstract
A bird phrase segmentation method using entropy-based change point detection is proposed. Spectrograms of bird calls are usually sparse while the background noise is relatively white. Therefore, considering the entropy of a sliding time-frequency block on the spectrogram, the entropy dips when detecting a signal and rises when the signal ends. Rather than applying a hard threshold on the entropy to determine the beginning and ending of a signal, a Bayesian change point detection is used to detect the statistical changes in the entropy sequence. Tests on a database of Cassin's Vireo (Vireo cassinii), our proposed segmentation method with spectral subtraction or a novel spectral whitening method as the front-end generates more accurate time labels, lower the false alarm rate than the conventional time-domain energy detection method and achieves high phrase classification rate.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ChinaSIP.2013.6625329
ChinaSIP
Field
DocType
Citations 
Background noise,Change detection,Vireo,Detection theory,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Computer science,Spectrogram,Phrase,Artificial intelligence,Constant false alarm rate
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
2
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ni-Chun Wang150.85
Ralph E. Hudson210.40
Lee Ngee Tan3435.00
Charles E. Taylor410.40
Abeer Alwan572988.19
Rung Yao610.40