Two convolutional neural networks for bird detection in audio signals

We present and compare two approaches to detect the presence of bird calls in audio recordings using convolutional neural networks on mel spectrograms. In a signal processing challenge using environmental recordings from three very different sources, only two of them available for supervised training, we obtained an Area Under Curve (AUC) measure of 89% on the hidden test set, higher than any other contestant. By comparing multiple variations of our systems, we find that despite very different architectures, both approaches can be tuned to perform equally well. Further improvements will likely require a radically different approach to dealing with the discrepancy between data sources.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  European Signal Processing Conference

• Publication date

  2017-08-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.23919/EUSIPCO.2017.8081512
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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