<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Identifying birds in audio signals has been a challenge because the marking of certain species influences their classification. The proposed method consists of a mixture of sound processing for extracting useful signals from longer recordings with dynamic energy thresholds, image processing such as filtering and compression through image resizing for the treatment of the spectrogram and multilayer perceptron networks for the classification. The method shows encouraging results and flexibility, allowing the extension to a larger number of species, as well as applications to other fields involving sound or sound-like signals.</p></abstract>

Identifying birds in audio signals has been a challenge because the marking of certain species influences their classification. The proposed method consists of a mixture of sound processing for extracting useful signals from longer recordings with dynamic energy thresholds, image processing such as filtering and compression through image resizing for the treatment of the spectrogram and multilayer perceptron networks for the classification. The method shows encouraging results and flexibility, allowing the extension to a larger number of species, as well as applications to other fields involving sound or sound-like signals.

Identification of Birds Using Spectrogram Image Processing and Artificial Neural Network Classifiers

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Acta Universitatis Cibiniensis. Technical Series

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Identifying birds in audio signals has been a challenge because the marking of certain species influences their classification. The proposed method consists of...

Identification of Birds Using Spectrogram Image Processing and Artificial Neural Network Classifiers

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 12 - 16

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aucts-2020-0002

Keywords
Identification of Birds, Spectrogram, ANN, Image Processing, Sound Processing

© 2020 Andrei-Ionuț Cheroiu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Identification of Birds Using Spectrogram Image Processing and Artificial Neural Network Classifiers

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 12 - 16

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aucts-2020-0002

KeywordsIdentification of Birds, Spectrogram, ANN, Image Processing, Sound Processing

© 2020 Andrei-Ionuț Cheroiu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Identification of Birds, Spectrogram, ANN, Image Processing, Sound Processing