Investigation of domain adaptation for acoustic frog species classification

​Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.26485v1
Subject Areas
Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
Bioacoustics, Acoustic feature extraction, Domain adaptation
Copyright
© 2018 Xie
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Xie J. 2018. Investigation of domain adaptation for acoustic frog species classification. PeerJ Preprints 6:e26485v1

Abstract

Acoustic frog species classification has received much attention for its importance in assessing biodiversity. However, most previous frog call classification models are trained and tested using the data collected from the same area, which greatly limits the model's generalization. In practice, frogs often have regional accents. When training and testing data are collected from different areas, there is an adverse impact on frog call classification performance. To tackle this problem, this paper investigates domain adaptation for classifying frog calls collected from different areas. To evaluate the performance of our proposed methods, two frog call datasets, which are collected from subtropical eastern Australia and tropical north-eastern Australia, are used. Experimental results demonstrate that domain adaptation can significantly improve the weighted F1-score from 72.8% to 85.5%.

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