Recognition of Multiple Bird Species based on Penalised Maximum Likelihood and HMM-based Modelling of Individual Elements

Peter Jancovic, Munevver Kokuer Jancovic

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Abstract

This paper presents an extension of our recent work on recognition of multiple bird species from their vocalisations by incorporating an improved acoustic modelling. The acoustic scene is segmented into spectro-temporal isolated segments by employing a sinusoidal detection algorithm, which is able to handle multiple simultaneous bird vocalisations. Each segment is represented as a temporal sequence of frequencies of the detected sinusoid. Each bird species is represented by a set of hidden Markov models (HMMs), each HMM modelling a particular vocalisation element. A set of elements is discovered in an unsupervised manner using a partial dynamic time warping algorithm and agglomerative hierarchical clustering. Recognition of multiple bird species is performed based on maximising the likelihood of the set of detected segments on a subset of bird species models, with a penalisation applied for increasing the number of bird species. Experimental evaluations used audio field recordings containing 30 bird species. Detected segments from several bird species are joined to simulate the presence of multiple bird species. It is demonstrated that the use of improved acoustic modelling in conjunction with the maximum likelihood score combination method provides considerable improvements over previous results and the use of majority voting.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInterspeech 2016
EditorsNelson Morgan
PublisherISCA
Pages2612-2616
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Sept 2016
EventInterspeech 2016 - San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
Duration: 8 Sept 201612 Sept 2016
http://interspeech2016.org/

Publication series

NameInterspeech Proceedings
ISSN (Electronic)1990-9772

Conference

ConferenceInterspeech 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period8/09/1612/09/16
Internet address

Keywords

  • multiple bird species recognition
  • HMM
  • vocalisation
  • element
  • unsupervised training
  • sinusoid detection

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