This study presents a system for classifying echolocation clicks of six species of odontocetes in the Southern California Bight: Visually confirmed bottlenose dolphins, short- and long-beaked common dolphins, Pacific white-sided dolphins, Risso’s dolphins, and presumed Cuvier’s beaked whales. Echolocation clicks are represented by cepstral feature vectors that are classified by Gaussian mixture models. A randomized cross-validation experiment is designed to provide conditions similar to those found in a field-deployed system. To prevent matched conditions from inappropriately lowering the error rate, echolocation clicks associated with a single sighting are never split across the training and test data. Sightings are randomly permuted before assignment to folds in the experiment. This allows different combinations of the training and test data to be used while keeping data from each sighting entirely in the training or test set. The system achieves a mean error rate of 22% across 100 randomized three-fold cross-validation experiments. Four of the six species had mean error rates lower than the overall mean, with the presumed Cuvier’s beaked whale clicks showing the best performance (<2% error rate). Long-beaked common and bottlenose dolphins proved the most difficult to classify, with mean error rates of 53% and 68%, respectively.
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February 02 2011
Classification of echolocation clicks from odontocetes in the Southern California Bight
Marie A. Roch;
Marie A. Roch
a)
San Diego State University
, Department of Computer Science, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, California 92182-7720
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Holger Klinck;
Holger Klinck
Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies,
Oregon State University
, 2030 South East Marine Science Drive Newport, Oregon 97365
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Simone Baumann-Pickering;
Simone Baumann-Pickering
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California
, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0205
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David K. Mellinger;
David K. Mellinger
Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies,
Oregon State University
, 2030 South East Marine Science Drive, Newport, Oregon 97365
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Simon Qui;
Simon Qui
San Diego State University
, Department of Computer Science, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, California 92182-7720
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Melissa S. Soldevilla;
Melissa S. Soldevilla
Duke University Marine Laboratory
, 135 Duke Marine Laboratory Road, Beaufort, North Carolina 28516
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John A. Hildebrand
John A. Hildebrand
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California
, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0205
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic mail: marie.roch@sdsu.edu
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 129, 467–475 (2011)
Article history
Received:
May 11 2010
Accepted:
October 07 2010
Citation
Marie A. Roch, Holger Klinck, Simone Baumann-Pickering, David K. Mellinger, Simon Qui, Melissa S. Soldevilla, John A. Hildebrand; Classification of echolocation clicks from odontocetes in the Southern California Bight. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 January 2011; 129 (1): 467–475. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3514383
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