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Supervised Hierarchical Segmentation for Bird Bioacoustics
ScholarsArchive at Oregon State University
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Supervised Hierarchical Segmentation for Bird Bioacoustics |
| Names |
Tjahja, Teresa V.
(creator) Fern, Xiaoli Z. (advisor) |
| Date Issued | 2015-06-01 (iso8601) |
| Note | Graduation date: 2015 |
| Abstract | Bioacoustics analysis can be used to conduct environmental monitoring by detecting the presence of birds species. This analysis usually involves identifying the species from their calls. In most frameworks, bird song syllables are extracted from audio recordings and individual syllables are input to a classifier to identify the species. Extraction of bird song syllables from audio recordings involves segmenting the bird song signal into individual syllables. However, syllable extraction from in-field recordings poses a challenge due to the presence of environmental noise. For such noisy recordings, supervised segmentation has been observed to perform better than unsupervised approaches. To perform segmentation, recordings are commonly converted to a time-frequency spectrogram. Supervision can then be provided at pixel level and syllable level. In pixel-level supervision, individual pixels are predicted to belong to a syllable, while in syllable-level supervision, the prediction is made for groups of pixels. In this thesis, we propose a supervised hierarchical segmentation approach that learns from both pixel and syllable levels supervision. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms existing supervised method that learns only at the pixel level. |
| Genre | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Access Condition | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ |
| Topic | supervised segmentation |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/1957/56051 |
