Many odontocetes produce frequency modulated tonal calls known as whistles. The ability
to automatically determine time× frequency tracks corresponding to these vocalizations has
numerous applications including species description, identification, and density estimation.
This work develops and compares two algorithms on a common corpus of nearly one hour of
data collected in the Southern California Bight and at Palmyra Atoll. The corpus contains
over 3000 whistles from bottlenose dolphins, long-and short-beaked common dolphins …