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The sustainability of the ocean ecosystem is threatened by increased levels of sound pollution, making monitoring crucial to understand its variability and impact. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) systems collect a large amount of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hilde I Hummel , Sandjai Bhulai , Burooj Ghani , Rob van der Mei

Increasing levels of anthropogenic noise from ships contribute significantly to underwater sound pollution, posing risks to marine ecosystems. This makes monitoring crucial to understand and quantify the impact of the ship radiated noise.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Hilde I. Hummel , Sandjai Bhulai , Rob D. van der Mei , Burooj Ghani

Accurate fish segmentation in underwater videos is challenging due to low visibility, variable lighting, and dynamic backgrounds, making fully-supervised methods that require manual annotation impractical for many applications. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Alzayat Saleh , Marcus Sheaves , Dean Jerry , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

The purpose of this paper is to compare different learnable frontends in medical acoustics tasks. A framework has been implemented to classify human respiratory sounds and heartbeats in two categories, i.e. healthy or affected by…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Alessandro Maria Poirè , Federico Simonetta , Stavros Ntalampiras

Underwater target tracking technology plays a pivotal role in marine resource exploration, environmental monitoring, and national defense security. Given that acoustic waves represent an effective medium for long-distance transmission in…

Musical instrument classification, a key area in Music Information Retrieval, has gained considerable interest due to its applications in education, digital music production, and consumer media. Recent advances in machine learning,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Joanikij Chulev

In the past, Acoustic Scene Classification systems have been based on hand crafting audio features that are input to a classifier. Nowadays, the common trend is to adopt data driven techniques, e.g., deep learning, where audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Eduardo Fonseca , Rong Gong , Xavier Serra

A deep learning approach based on big data is proposed to locate broadband acoustic sources using a single hydrophone in ocean waveguides with uncertain bottom parameters. Several 50-layer residual neural networks, trained on a huge number…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-07-19 Haiqiang Niu , Zaixiao Gong , Emma Ozanich , Peter Gerstoft , Haibin Wang , Zhenglin Li

Acoustic propagation models are widely used in numerous oceanic and other underwater applications. Most conventional models are approximate solutions of the acoustic wave equation, and require accurate environmental knowledge to be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Kexin Li , Mandar Chitre

Audio-visual navigation combines sight and hearing to navigate to a sound-emitting source in an unmapped environment. While recent approaches have demonstrated the benefits of audio input to detect and find the goal, they focus on clean and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Abdelrahman Younes , Daniel Honerkamp , Tim Welschehold , Abhinav Valada

We investigate the potential of stochastic neural networks for learning effective waveform-based acoustic models. The waveform-based setting, inherent to fully end-to-end speech recognition systems, is motivated by several comparative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-17 Dino Oglic , Zoran Cvetkovic , Peter Sollich

Underwater acoustic target recognition is an intractable task due to the complex acoustic source characteristics and sound propagation patterns. Limited by insufficient data and narrow information perspective, recognition models based on…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yuan Xie , Jiawei Ren , Ji Xu

Underwater Passive Acoustic Monitoring (UPAM) provides rich spatiotemporal data for long-term ecological analysis, but intrinsic noise and complex signal dependencies hinder model stability and generalization. Multilayered windowing has…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Nicholas R. Rasmussen , Rodrigue Rizk , Longwei Wang , KC Santosh

An automated and accurate fabric defect inspection system is in high demand as a replacement for slow, inconsistent, error-prone, and expensive human operators in the textile industry. Previous efforts focused on certain types of fabrics or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Hao Zhou , Yixin Chen , David Troendle , Byunghyun Jang

This letter presents ShuffleFAC, a lightweight acoustic model for ship-radiated sound classification in resource-constrained maritime monitoring systems. ShuffleFAC integrates Frequency-Aware convolution into an efficiency-oriented backbone…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Sangwon Park , Dongjun Kim , Sung-Hoon Byun , Sangwook Park

With the recent increase in the number of underwater activities, having effective underwater communication systems has become increasingly important. Underwater acoustic communication has been widely used but greatly impaired due to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Oluwaseyi Onasami , Damilola Adesina , Lijun Qian

Deep Learning approaches for real, large, and complex scientific data sets can be very challenging to design. In this work, we present a complete search for a finely-tuned and efficiently scaled deep learning classifier to identify usable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Vincent Dumont , Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos , Jonathan Ajo-Franklin , Kesheng Wu

Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) enables high-resolution and long-duration monitoring of marine acoustic and seismic activity by turning existing fiber-optic cables into dense sensor arrays. However, extracting diverse signals from…

Assessing the presence and abundance of birds is important for monitoring specific species as well as overall ecosystem health. Many birds are most readily detected by their sounds, and thus passive acoustic monitoring is highly…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Dan Stowell , Yannis Stylianou , Mike Wood , Hanna Pamuła , Hervé Glotin

Learning robust speaker representations under noisy conditions presents significant challenges, which requires careful handling of both discriminative and noise-invariant properties. In this work, we proposed an anchor-based stage-wise…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bin Gu , Lipeng Dai , Huipeng Du , Haitao Zhao , Jibo Wei