Automatic large-scale classification of bird sounds is strongly improved by unsupervised feature learning

PeerJ

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Stowell, Dan ^a   Plumbley, Mark D ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioacoustics; Birds; Birdsong; Classification; Machine learning; Vocalisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905690760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.488     Document Type: Article

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