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Presence-absence estimation in audio recordings of tropical frog communities

2019-01-08
Andrés Estrella Terneux, Damián Nicolalde, Daniel Nicolalde, Andrés Merino-Viteri

Abstract

One non-invasive way to study frog communities is by analyzing long-term samples of acoustic material containing calls. This immense task has been optimized by the development of Machine Learning tools to extract ecological information. We explored a likelihood-ratio audio detector based on Gaussian mixture model classification of 10 frog species, and applied it to estimate presence-absence in audio recordings from an actual amphibian monitoring performed at Yasun'i National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazonia. A modified filter-bank was used to extract 20 cepstral features that model the spectral content of frog calls. Experiments were carried out to investigate the hyperparameters and the minimum frog-call time needed to train an accurate GMM classifier. With 64 Gaussians and 12 seconds of training time, the classifier achieved an average weighted error rate of 0.9% on the 10-fold cross-validation for nine species classification, as compared to 3% with MFCC and 1.8% with PLP features. For testing, 10 GMMs were trained using all the available training-validation dataset to study 23.5 hours in 141, 10-minute long samples of unidentified real-world audio recorded at two frog communities in 2001 with analog equipment. To evaluate automatic presence-absence estimation, we characterized the audio samples with 10 binary variables each corresponding to a frog species, and manually labeled a sub-set of 18 samples using headphones. A recall of 87.5% and precision of 100% with average accuracy of 96.66% suggests good generalization ability of the algorithm, and provides evidence of the validity of this approach to study real-world audio recorded in a tropical acoustic environment. Finally, we applied the algorithm to the available corpus, and show its potentiality to gain insights into the temporal reproductive behavior of frogs.

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http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02495

PDF

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.02495


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