Linear discriminant analysis based hidden Markov model for detection of Mysticetes’ vocalisations

Mysticetes’ produce distinctive vocalisations which are used for echolocation, communication, and other marine functions. These cryptic vocalisations are studied by marine scientist to determine the behavioural patterns and movement of this suborder of cetaceans within their ecosystem. In practice,...

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Main Authors: O.M. Ogundile, A.A. Owoade, O.O. Ogundile, O.P. Babalola
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-06-01
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468227624000735
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author O.M. Ogundile
A.A. Owoade
O.O. Ogundile
O.P. Babalola
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A.A. Owoade
O.O. Ogundile
O.P. Babalola
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description Mysticetes’ produce distinctive vocalisations which are used for echolocation, communication, and other marine functions. These cryptic vocalisations are studied by marine scientist to determine the behavioural patterns and movement of this suborder of cetaceans within their ecosystem. In practice, these vocalisations are gathered using passive acoustic monitoring over days, weeks, months, and even years. Therefore, it is complex to study these sounds using traditional visual inspection techniques because the gathered datasets are huge. Machine learning (ML) tools such as Gaussian mixture models (GMMs), support vector machines (SVMs), and hidden Markov models (HMMs) have been adopted in recent times to proffer analytic solutions to automatically detect and study these cryptic vocalisations. Notwithstanding, the feature extraction techniques employed play a vital role in determining the performance of these ML tools. In most cases, the performance of the feature extraction technique is directly proportional to the performance of the ML tools. Thus, the method of linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is introduced in this article as a feature extraction technique that can be adapted with the HMMs (LDA-HMM) to seamlessly detect the vocalisations of Mysticetes. The performance of the proposed LDA-HMM detector is compared with other recent detectors for Mysticetes’ vocalisations in the literature using two different species: Humpback whale songs and Bryde’s whale pulses. Experimental results show that the developed LDA-HMM detector is a performance-efficient alternative in comparison to the recent detection techniques studied in this article. Besides, the LDA-HMM detector offers less computational time complexity; as such, it is more suitable for real-time applications.
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spelling doaj.art-12d9e0c35b7448f798a065a8d7d5d0ab2024-06-03T04:11:52ZengElsevierScientific African2468-22762024-06-0124e02128Linear discriminant analysis based hidden Markov model for detection of Mysticetes’ vocalisationsO.M. Ogundile0A.A. Owoade1O.O. Ogundile2O.P. Babalola3Department of Computer Science, Tai Solarin University, Ogun State, Nigeria; Corresponding author.Department of Computer Science, Tai Solarin University, Ogun State, NigeriaDepartment of Computer Science, Tai Solarin University, Ogun State, NigeriaDepartment of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Bellville, South AfricaMysticetes’ produce distinctive vocalisations which are used for echolocation, communication, and other marine functions. These cryptic vocalisations are studied by marine scientist to determine the behavioural patterns and movement of this suborder of cetaceans within their ecosystem. In practice, these vocalisations are gathered using passive acoustic monitoring over days, weeks, months, and even years. Therefore, it is complex to study these sounds using traditional visual inspection techniques because the gathered datasets are huge. Machine learning (ML) tools such as Gaussian mixture models (GMMs), support vector machines (SVMs), and hidden Markov models (HMMs) have been adopted in recent times to proffer analytic solutions to automatically detect and study these cryptic vocalisations. Notwithstanding, the feature extraction techniques employed play a vital role in determining the performance of these ML tools. In most cases, the performance of the feature extraction technique is directly proportional to the performance of the ML tools. Thus, the method of linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is introduced in this article as a feature extraction technique that can be adapted with the HMMs (LDA-HMM) to seamlessly detect the vocalisations of Mysticetes. The performance of the proposed LDA-HMM detector is compared with other recent detectors for Mysticetes’ vocalisations in the literature using two different species: Humpback whale songs and Bryde’s whale pulses. Experimental results show that the developed LDA-HMM detector is a performance-efficient alternative in comparison to the recent detection techniques studied in this article. Besides, the LDA-HMM detector offers less computational time complexity; as such, it is more suitable for real-time applications.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468227624000735Feature extractionFeature vectorHMMLDAMysticetes’Vocalisations detection
spellingShingle O.M. Ogundile
A.A. Owoade
O.O. Ogundile
O.P. Babalola
Linear discriminant analysis based hidden Markov model for detection of Mysticetes’ vocalisations
Scientific African
Feature extraction
Feature vector
HMM
LDA
Mysticetes’
Vocalisations detection
title Linear discriminant analysis based hidden Markov model for detection of Mysticetes’ vocalisations
title_full Linear discriminant analysis based hidden Markov model for detection of Mysticetes’ vocalisations
title_fullStr Linear discriminant analysis based hidden Markov model for detection of Mysticetes’ vocalisations
title_full_unstemmed Linear discriminant analysis based hidden Markov model for detection of Mysticetes’ vocalisations
title_short Linear discriminant analysis based hidden Markov model for detection of Mysticetes’ vocalisations
title_sort linear discriminant analysis based hidden markov model for detection of mysticetes vocalisations
topic Feature extraction
Feature vector
HMM
LDA
Mysticetes’
Vocalisations detection
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468227624000735
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