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Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks for Bird Audio Detection

Sound 2017-03-08 v1 Machine Learning Machine Learning

Abstract

Bird sounds possess distinctive spectral structure which may exhibit small shifts in spectrum depending on the bird species and environmental conditions. In this paper, we propose using convolutional recurrent neural networks on the task of automated bird audio detection in real-life environments. In the proposed method, convolutional layers extract high dimensional, local frequency shift invariant features, while recurrent layers capture longer term dependencies between the features extracted from short time frames. This method achieves 88.5% Area Under ROC Curve (AUC) score on the unseen evaluation data and obtains the second place in the Bird Audio Detection challenge.

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@article{arxiv.1703.02317,
  title  = {Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks for Bird Audio Detection},
  author = {EmreÇakır and Sharath Adavanne and Giambattista Parascandolo and Konstantinos Drossos and Tuomas Virtanen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.02317},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Submitted to EUSIPCO 2017 Special Session on Bird Audio Signal Processing

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