A comparative study in birds: Call-type-independent species and individual recognition using four machine-learning methods and two acoustic features

Bioacoustics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-171

  Cheng, Jinkui ^a   Xie, Bengui ^a   Lin, Congtian ^a   Ji, Liqiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Call type independent; Individual recognition; Linear predictive coefficients; Machine learning; Mel frequency cepstral coefficients; Passerine; Species identification

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LINEARITY; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASSERINE; RECOGNITION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84872454191     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2012.669664     Document Type: Article

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