Title
Bioacoustic detection with wavelet-conditioned convolutional neural networks
Abstract
Many real-world time series analysis problems are characterized by low signal-to-noise ratios and compounded by scarce data. Solutions to these types of problems often rely on handcrafted features extracted in the time or frequency domain. Recent high-profile advances in deep learning have improved performance across many application domains; however, they typically rely on large data sets that may not always be available. This paper presents an application of deep learning for acoustic event detection in a challenging, data-scarce, real-world problem. We show that convolutional neural networks (CNNs), operating on wavelet transformations of audio recordings, demonstrate superior performance over conventional classifiers that utilize handcrafted features. Our key result is that wavelet transformations offer a clear benefit over the more commonly used short-time Fourier transform. Furthermore, we show that features, handcrafted for a particular dataset, do not generalize well to other datasets. Conversely, CNNs trained on generic features are able to achieve comparable results across multiple datasets, along with outperforming human labellers. We present our results on the application of both detecting the presence of mosquitoes and the classification of bird species.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s00521-018-3626-7
Neural Computing and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Convolutional neural networks, Spectrograms, Short-time Fourier transform, Wavelets, Acoustic signal processing, Classification and detection
Frequency domain,Time series,Pattern recognition,Spectrogram,Convolutional neural network,Short-time Fourier transform,Fourier transform,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Machine learning,Mathematics,Wavelet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
4
1433-3058
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
20
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ivan Kiskin113.09
Davide Zilli212.08
Yunpeng Li357845.91
Marianne E. Sinka410.39
Katherine J. Willis510.39
stephen j roberts61244174.70