Automatic detection of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) infrasonic vocalisations from recordings

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 286-294

  Venter, Pieter J ^a   Hanekom, Johan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; BACKGROUND NOISE; HARMONIC STRUCTURES; MANUAL ANALYSIS; NOISY RECORDINGS; SIGNAL CHARACTERISTIC; VISUAL INSPECTION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION ALGORITHMS;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA;

EID: 77954952399     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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