Abstract:Bioacoustic data from Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) generates large datasets where obtaining detailed auditing and labelling is often impractical, resulting in weak annotations (e.g., presence/absence of species over several minutes of recording). In order to effectively capture the complex temporal patterns and key features of long audio segments, we propose a framework comprising dataset standardisation, feature extraction, and classification via Temporal Convolutional Networks (TCN). This approach eliminates the necessity for setting heuristic decision rules or creating time-consuming strong labels. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, we use sperm whale (\textit{Physeter macrocephalus}) click trains in 4-minute recordings as a case study, from a dataset comprising diverse sources and deployment conditions to maximise generalisability. Our TCN classifiers achieve recall rates exceeding 0.83 at a 0.13 false positive rate, comparable to agreement rates between expert annotators. We compare two methods of feature extraction, Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) and traditional handpicking of features, and found them to yield similar performance results, with the VAE-based classifiers seeing a more stable performance across datasets and recording conditions. These results offer a way forward in leveraging numerous existing annotated bioacoustic datasets to train automatic classification models, effectively overcoming previous limitations associated with weak labels.
From: Laia Garrobe Fonollosa [view email]
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