Automatic acoustic identification of individuals in multiple species: improving identification across recording conditions release_wkw5ugae2zgitlvy46r3kjvdwu

by Dan Stowell, Tereza Petrusková, Martin Šálek, Pavel Linhart

Published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface by The Royal Society.

2019   Volume 16, Issue 153, p20180940

Abstract

Many animals emit vocal sounds which, independently from the sounds' function, contain some individually distinctive signature. Thus the automatic recognition of individuals by sound is a potentially powerful tool for zoology and ecology research and practical monitoring. Here, we present a general automatic identification method that can work across multiple animal species with various levels of complexity in their communication systems. We further introduce new analysis techniques based on dataset manipulations that can evaluate the robustness and generality of a classifier. By using these techniques, we confirmed the presence of experimental confounds in situations resembling those from past studies. We introduce data manipulations that can reduce the impact of these confounds, compatible with any classifier. We suggest that assessment of confounds should become a standard part of future studies to ensure they do not report over-optimistic results. We provide annotated recordings used for analyses along with this study and we call for dataset sharing to be a common practice to enhance the development of methods and comparisons of results.
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