Feature vector selection and use with hidden markov models to identify frequency-Modulated bioacoustic signals amidst noise

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1173-1180

  Brandes, T Scott ^a,b  

^a Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network TEAM   (United States)

^b Signal Innovations Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic call recognition (ACR); Bioacoustics; Bird songs; Feature vectors; Frequency band threshold filter; Frog calls; Spectrogram

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CALL RECOGNITION (ACR); BIOACOUSTICS; FEATURE VECTORS; FROG CALLS; SPECTROGRAM;

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; FREQUENCY BANDS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VECTORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 66149119365     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.925872     Document Type: Article

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