Leveraging time-based acoustic patterns for ecosystem analysis
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is an effective, non-intrusive method for studying ecosystems, but obtaining meaningful ecological information from its large number of audio files is challenging. In this study, we take advantage of the expected animal behavior at different times of the day (e.g.,...
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Published in | Neural computing & applications Vol. 36; no. 32; pp. 20513 - 20526 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
London
Springer London
01.11.2024
Springer Nature B.V |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is an effective, non-intrusive method for studying ecosystems, but obtaining meaningful ecological information from its large number of audio files is challenging. In this study, we take advantage of the expected animal behavior at different times of the day (e.g., higher acoustic animal activity at dawn) and develop a novel approach to use these time-based patterns. We organize PAM data into 24-hour temporal blocks formed with sound features from a pretrained VGGish network. These features feed a 1D convolutional neural network with a class activation mapping technique that gives interpretability to its outcomes. As a result, these diel-cycle blocks offer more accurate and robust hour-by-hour information than using traditional ecological acoustic indices as features, effectively recognizing key ecosystem patterns. |
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ISSN: | 0941-0643 1433-3058 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00521-024-10157-7 |