Automatic recognition of fin and blue whale calls for real-time monitoring in the St. Lawrence

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2918-2928

  Mouy, Xavier ^a   Bahoura, Mohammed ^a   Simard, Yvan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; BLUE WHALE; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; FALSE ALARM RATE; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; LAWRENCE ESTUARIES; PASSIVE ACOUSTICS; REAL TIME MONITORING; RECOGNITION ALGORITHM; SPECTROGRAMS; TIME-FREQUENCY METHODS; TIME-FREQUENCY TEMPLATE; WHALE CALLS;

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); IMAGE PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROGRAPHS;

VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FIN WHALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONITORING; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORDING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUTOMATION; BALAENOPTERA; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FIN WHALE; QUEBEC; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 72549093668     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3257588     Document Type: Article

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