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This paper introduces a novel audio-to-image encoding framework that integrates multiple dimensions of voice characteristics into a single RGB image for speaker recognition. In this method, the green channel encodes raw audio data, the red…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Youness Atif

Orcinus orca (killer whales) exhibit complex calls. They last about a second. In a call, an orca typically uses multiple frequencies simultaneously, varies the frequencies, and varies their volumes. Behavior data is hard to obtain because…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Sophia Sandholm

This paper proposes a data-efficient, semi-supervised, two-pass framework for segmenting bird vocalizations. The framework utilizes a binary classification model to categorize frames of an input audio recording into the background or bird…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-27 Anshul Thakur , Padmanabhan Rajan

A new method for North Atlantic Right Whales (NARW) up-call detection using Multimodel Deep Learning (MMDL) is presented in this paper. In this approach, signals from passive acoustic sensors are first converted to spectrogram and scalogram…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Ali K Ibrahim , Hanqi Zhuang , Laurent M. Ch'erubin , Nurgun Erdol , Gregory O Corry-Crowe , Ali Muhamed Ali

Sound is assumed to be the primary modality of communication among marine mammal species. Analyzing acoustic recordings helps to understand the function of the acoustic signals as well as the possible impact of anthropogenic noise on…

Deep learning has dramatically improved the performance of sounds recognition. However, learning acoustic models directly from the raw waveform is still challenging. Current waveform-based models generally use time-domain convolutional…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Boqing Zhu , Changjian Wang , Feng Liu , Jin Lei , Zengquan Lu , Yuxing Peng

This paper presents AquaSignal, a modular and scalable pipeline for preprocessing, denoising, classification, and novelty detection of underwater acoustic signals. Designed to operate effectively in noisy and dynamic marine environments,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Eirini Panteli , Paulo E. Santos , Nabil Humphrey

We present a robust classification approach for avian vocalization in complex and diverse soundscapes, achieving second place in the BirdCLEF2021 challenge. We illustrate how to make full use of pre-trained convolutional neural networks, by…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Christof Henkel , Pascal Pfeiffer , Philipp Singer

Monitoring of bird populations has played a vital role in conservation efforts and in understanding biodiversity loss. The automation of this process has been facilitated by both sensing technologies, such as passive acoustic monitoring,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Irina Tolkova , Brian Chu , Marcel Hedman , Stefan Kahl , Holger Klinck

Large audio language models (LALMs) extend language understanding into the auditory domain, yet their ability to perform low-level listening, such as pitch and duration detection, remains underexplored. However, low-level listening is…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jaeyeon Kim , Heeseung Yun , Sang Hoon Woo , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Gunhee Kim

Animal vocalizations provide crucial insights for wildlife assessment, particularly in complex environments such as forests, aiding species identification and ecological monitoring. Recent advances in deep learning have enabled automatic…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Risa Shinoda , Kaede Shiohara , Nakamasa Inoue , Hiroaki Santo , Fumio Okura

Identification of bird species from audio records is one of the challenging tasks due to the existence of multiple species in the same recording, noise in the background, and long-term recording. Besides, choosing a proper acoustic feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Nahian Ibn Hasan

The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is an endangered species. These whales continuously suffer from deadly vessel impacts alongside the eastern coast of North America. There have been countless efforts to save the remaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-10 Rami Abousleiman , Guangzhi Qu , Osamah Rawashdeh

This work focuses on reliable detection and segmentation of bird vocalizations as recorded in the open field. Acoustic detection of avian sounds can be used for the automatized monitoring of multiple bird taxa and querying in long-term…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-20 Lefteris Fanioudakis , Ilyas Potamitis

Whistle contour extraction aims to derive animal whistles from time-frequency spectrograms as polylines. For toothed whales, whistle extraction results can serve as the basis for analyzing animal abundance, species identity, and social…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Pu Li , Marie Roch , Holger Klinck , Erica Fleishman , Douglas Gillespie , Eva-Marie Nosal , Yu Shiu , Xiaobai Liu

Automatic identification of animal species by their vocalization is an important and challenging task. Although many kinds of audio monitoring system have been proposed in the literature, they suffer from several disadvantages such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Weitao Xu , Xiang Zhang , Lina Yao , Wanli Xue , Bo Wei

Marine mammal vocalization analysis depends on interpreting bioacoustic spectrograms. Vision Language Models (VLMs) are not trained on these domain-specific visualizations. We investigate whether VLMs can extract meaningful patterns from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ragib Amin Nihal , Benjamin Yen , Takeshi Ashizawa , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Facing the complex marine environment, it is extremely challenging to conduct underwater acoustic target recognition (UATR) using ship-radiated noise. Inspired by neural mechanism of auditory perception, this paper provides a new deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Gang Hu , Kejun Wang , Liangliang Liu

One of the interests of modern poultry farming is the vocalization of laying hens which contain very useful information on health behavior. This information is used as health and well-being indicators that help breeders better monitor…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Fréjus A. A. Laleye , Mikaël A. Mousse

This work focuses on reliable detection of bird sound emissions as recorded in the open field. Acoustic detection of avian sounds can be used for the automatized monitoring of multiple bird taxa and querying in long-term recordings for…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Ilyas Potamitis