Automated birdsong recognition in complex acoustic environments: a review

N Priyadarshani, S Marsland… - Journal of Avian Biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Conservationists are increasingly using autonomous acoustic recorders to determine the
presence/absence and the abundance of bird species. Unlike humans, these recorders can …

ORCA-SPOT: An automatic killer whale sound detection toolkit using deep learning

C Bergler, H Schröter, RX Cheng, V Barth, M Weber… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Large bioacoustic archives of wild animals are an important source to identify reappearing
communication patterns, which can then be related to recurring behavioral patterns to …

A hidden Markov model approach to indicate Bryde's whale acoustics

RL Putland, L Ranjard, R Constantine, CA Radford - Ecological Indicators, 2018 - Elsevier
Increasing sound in the ocean from human activity potentially threatens marine animals that
use sound to communicate, detect prey, avoid predators and function within their ecosystem …

The impacts of fine-tuning, phylogenetic distance, and sample size on big-data bioacoustics

KL Provost, J Yang, BC Carstens - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Vocalizations in animals, particularly birds, are critically important behaviors that influence
their reproductive fitness. While recordings of bioacoustic data have been captured and …

An unsupervised Hidden Markov Model-based system for the detection and classification of blue whale vocalizations off Chile

SJ Buchan, R Mahú, J Wuth, N Balcazar-Cabrera… - Bioacoustics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we present an automatic method, without human supervision, for the detection
and classification of blue whale vocalizations from passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) data …

MatlabHTK: a simple interface for bioacoustic analyses using hidden Markov models

L Ranjard, BS Reed, TJ Landers… - Methods in Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Passive bioacoustic recording devices are now widely available and able to continuously
record remotely located sites for extended periods, offering great potential for wildlife …

Group chorusing as an intragroup signal in the greater ani, a communally breeding bird

A Savagian, C Riehl - Ethology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Group living often requires maintaining dynamic and varied relationships with fellow group
members, while simultaneously monitoring and interacting with external competitors. Group …

Minimum spanning tree as a new, robust repertoire size comparison method: simulation and test on birdsong

S Zsebők, G Herczeg, G Blázi, M Laczi, G Nagy… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2018 - Springer
The comparison of acoustic complexity across individuals is often essential for
understanding the evolution of acoustic signals. In many animal taxa, as a proxy of acoustic …

Assemblage of Focal Species Recognizers—AFSR: A technique for decreasing false indications of presence from acoustic automatic identification in a multiple …

IB Campos, TJ Landers, KD Lee, WG Lee, MR Friesen… - Plos one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) coupled with automated species identification is a
promising tool for species monitoring and conservation worldwide. However, high false …

Geographic patterns of song variation reveal timing of song acquisition in a wild avian population

L Ranjard, SJ Withers, DH Brunton… - Behavioral …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Geographic patterns of song variation are common in passerines and can develop as a
consequence of the mechanisms of song acquisition and dispersal. In particular, the timing …