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Sinusoidal modelling for ecoacoustics

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posted on 2023-06-09, 02:28 authored by Patrice Guyot, Alice EldridgeAlice Eldridge, Ying Chen Eyre-Walker, Alison Johnston, Thomas Pellegrini, Mika PeckMika Peck
Biodiversity assessment is a central and urgent task, necessary to monitoring the changes to ecological systems and under- standing the factors which drive these changes. Technological advances are providing new approaches to monitoring, which are particularly useful in remote regions. Situated within the framework of the emerging field of ecoacoustics, there is grow- ing interest in the possibility of extracting ecological informa- tion from digital recordings of the acoustic environment. Rather than focusing on identification of individual species, an increas- ing number of automated indices attempt to summarise acoustic activity at the community level, in order to provide a proxy for biodiversity. Originally designed for speech processing, sinu- soidal modelling has previously been used as a bioacoustic tool, for example to detect particular bird species. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of sinusoidal modelling as a proxy for bird abundance. Using data from acoustic surveys made during the breeding season in UK woodland, the number of extracted sinusoidal tracks is shown to correlate with estimates of bird abundance made by expert ornithologists listening to the recordings. We also report ongoing work exploring a new approach to investigate the composition of calls in spectro-temporal space that constitutes a promising new method for Ecoaoustic biodiversity assessment.

Funding

Rapid Acoustic Survey: Validating Acoustic Methods for Biodiversity Assessment; G1606; LEVERHULME TRUST; RPG-2014-403

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  • Published

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Journal

Proceedings of Interspeech 2016

ISSN

1990-9772

Publisher

ISCA (the International Speech Communication Association)

Page range

2602-2606

Event name

Interspeech

Event location

San Fransisco

Event type

conference

Event date

8-12 Sept 2016

Book title

Proceedings of Interspeech 2016

Department affiliated with

  • Evolution, Behaviour and Environment Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Humanities Lab Publications

Notes

Guyot, P., Eldridge, A., Eyre-Walker, Y.C., Johnston, A., Pellegrini, T., Peck, M. (2016) Sinusoidal Modelling for Ecoacoustics. Proc. Interspeech 2016, 2602-2606.

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Legacy Posted Date

2016-08-10

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-09-06

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-09-06

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