Detection of blue whale vocalisations using a temporal-domain convolutional neural network

10/05/2021
by   Bryan Sagredo, et al.
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We present a framework for detecting blue whale vocalisations from acoustic submarine recordings. The proposed methodology comprises three stages: i) a preprocessing step where the audio recordings are conditioned through normalisation, filtering, and denoising; ii) a label-propagation mechanism to ensure the consistency of the annotations of the whale vocalisations, and iii) a convolutional neural network that receives audio samples. Based on 34 real-world submarine recordings (28 for training and 6 for testing) we obtained promising performance indicators including an Accuracy of 85.4% and a Recall of 93.5%. Furthermore, even for the cases where our detector did not match the ground-truth labels, a visual inspection validates the ability of our approach to detect possible parts of whale calls unlabelled as such due to not being complete calls.

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