MobySound: A reference archive for studying automatic recognition of marine mammal sounds

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 67, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1226-1242

  Mellinger, David K ^a   Clark, Christopher W ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Call recognition; SNR; Sound archive

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIODIVERSITY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

CALL RECOGNITION; SNR; SOUND ARCHIVE; SOUND-RECOGNITION METHODS;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 33747759703     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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