An automatic acoustic bat identification system based on the audible spectrum

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 5451-5465

  Henríquez, Aarón ^a   Alonso, Jesús B ^a   Travieso, Carlos M ^a   Rodríguez Herrera, Bernal ^b   Bolaños, Federico ^b   Alpízar, Priscilla ^b   López De Ipina, Karmele ^c   Henríquez, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Audio adaptation; Bat identification; Feature extraction; Spectrogram

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPECTROGRAPHS;

AUDIO ADAPTATION; AVERAGE ERRORS; COSTA RICA; DIFFERENT CLASS; NATURAL AREAS; NEW FORMS; PROCESS-BASED; SPECTROGRAMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84898656710     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.02.021     Document Type: Article

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