Assessing the performance of a semi‐automated acoustic monitoring system for primates

• Published in: Methods in ecology and evolution Vol. 6; no. 7; pp. 753 - 763
• Main Authors: Heinicke, Stefanie, Kalan, Ammie K., Wagner, Oliver J.J., Mundry, Roger, Lukashevich, Hanna, Kühl, Hjalmar S., Jones, Kate
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.07.2015
• Subjects: Acoustic noise; Acoustics; automated signal recognition; Automation; bioacoustics; Cercopithecus diana; chimpanzee drumming; Classification; Colobus polykomos; Data processing; Gaussian mixture model; Marine; Marine mammals; Monitoring; Monitoring systems; Monkeys & apes; National parks; Pan troglodytes; Performance assessment; Performance evaluation; primate vocalization; Primates; Probabilistic models; Procolobus badius; Rainforests; Recall; Segmentation; Sound; speaker segmentation; Species; species identification algorithm; support vector machine; Support vector machines; Temporal distribution; Cote d'Ivoire, Tai Natl. Park; ASE, Cote d'Ivoire

Summary Passive acoustic monitoring is frequently used for marine mammals, and more recently it has also become popular for terrestrial species. Key advantages are the monitoring of (1) elusive species, (2) different taxa simultaneously, (3) large temporal and spatial scales, (4) with reduced human...