An Efficient Model for a Vast Number of Bird Species Identification Based on Acoustic Features

Birds have been widely considered crucial indicators of biodiversity. It is essential to identify bird species precisely for biodiversity surveys. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, bird species identification has been facilitated by deep learning using audio samples. Prior studi...

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Main Authors: Hanlin Wang, Yingfan Xu, Yan Yu, Yucheng Lin, Jianghong Ran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-09-01
Series:Animals
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/18/2434
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Summary:Birds have been widely considered crucial indicators of biodiversity. It is essential to identify bird species precisely for biodiversity surveys. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, bird species identification has been facilitated by deep learning using audio samples. Prior studies mainly focused on identifying several bird species using deep learning or machine learning based on acoustic features. In this paper, we proposed a novel deep learning method to better identify a large number of bird species based on their call. The proposed method was made of LSTM (Long Short−Term Memory) with coordinate attention. More than 70,000 bird−call audio clips, including 264 bird species, were collected from Xeno−Canto. An evaluation experiment showed that our proposed network achieved 77.43% mean average precision (mAP), which indicates that our proposed network is valuable for automatically identifying a massive number of bird species based on acoustic features and avian biodiversity monitoring.
ISSN:2076-2615