Feature-aided tracking for Marine Mammal detection and classification

Authors

  • Odile Gerard NATO Undersea Research Centre, Viale S. Bartolomeo 400, 19126 La Spezia, Italy
  • Craig Carthel NATO Undersea Research Centre, Viale S. Bartolomeo 400, 19126 La Spezia, Italy
  • Stefano Coraluppi NATO Undersea Research Centre, Viale S. Bartolomeo 400, 19126 La Spezia, Italy
  • Peter Willett ECE Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, United States

Keywords:

Classification (of information), Offshore oil well production, Probability distributions, Data sets, Marine mammals, Spectral informations

Abstract

This paper presents a method to detect and classify odontocete echolocation clicks as well as to estimate the number of animals that are vocalizing. A transient detector using the Page test [1-3] is used to extract the clicks: the click time, the click duration, the click amplitude and the spectral information of the clicks are extracted. A probability distribution over the species is assigned to each click, based on the spectral information of the click. The estimation of the number of animals is done using feature-aided multi-hypothesis tracking (MHT) algorithms. The association is based on the assumptions of slowly-varying click amplitude and intra-click timing [4-5]. This work has been done on the dataset provided by the organizers of the 3rd International Workshop on the Detection and Classification of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics, Boston, July 2007. This dataset consists of training and test data; the training data includes vocalizations of three species: Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris), Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) and short-finned pilot whale (Glohicephala macrorhynchus).

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Published

2008-03-01

How to Cite

1.
Gerard O, Carthel C, Coraluppi S, Willett P. Feature-aided tracking for Marine Mammal detection and classification. Canadian Acoustics [Internet]. 2008 Mar. 1 [cited 2025 Feb. 19];36(1):13-9. Available from: https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/1985

Issue

Vol. 36 No. 1 (2008)

Section

Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

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