{"title":"A method for filtering bioacoustic transients by spectrogram image convolution","authors":"D. Mellinger, C. Clark","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.1993.326171","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A method is presented for detecting bioacoustic transients. The desired transient-an animal call-is modeled as a sequence of frequency sweeps. Sweeps are detected by convolving a spectrogram of the signal with a kernel designed for the call of interest; convolution output is high when the call of interest is present and low other times. The method is tested on a set of bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) calls recorded in a noisy Arctic environment. The method detects bowhead calls well, performing better than a matched filter and a hidden Markov model on the task. Strengths and weaknesses of the method are discussed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":130255,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of OCEANS '93","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1993-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"19","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of OCEANS '93","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.1993.326171","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A method is presented for detecting bioacoustic transients. The desired transient-an animal call-is modeled as a sequence of frequency sweeps. Sweeps are detected by convolving a spectrogram of the signal with a kernel designed for the call of interest; convolution output is high when the call of interest is present and low other times. The method is tested on a set of bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) calls recorded in a noisy Arctic environment. The method detects bowhead calls well, performing better than a matched filter and a hidden Markov model on the task. Strengths and weaknesses of the method are discussed.<>