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Towards an automated acoustic detection system for free-ranging elephants
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Zeppelzauer, Matthias Hensman, Sean Stoeger, Angela S. |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Description | The human–elephant conflict is one of the most serious conservation problems in Asia and Africa today. The involuntary confrontation of humans and elephants claims the lives of many animals and humans every year. A promising approach to alleviate this conflict is the development of an acoustic early warning system. Such a system requires the robust automated detection of elephant vocalizations under unconstrained field conditions. Today, no system exists that fulfils these requirements. In this paper, we present a method for the automated detection of elephant vocalizations that is robust to the diverse noise sources present in the field. We evaluate the method on a data-set recorded under natural field conditions to simulate a real-world scenario. The proposed method outperformed existing approaches and robustly and accurately detected elephants. It thus can form the basis for a future automated early warning system for elephants. Furthermore, the method may be a useful tool for scientists in bioacoustics for the study of wildlife recordings. |
| Related Links | http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc4430816?pdf=render https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4430816/pdf |
| Ending Page | 29 |
| Page Count | 17 |
| Starting Page | 13 |
| ISSN | 09524622 |
| e-ISSN | 21650586 |
| DOI | 10.1080/09524622.2014.906321 |
| Journal | Bioacoustics |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 24 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2014-04-22 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Computer Science Human–elephant Conflict Wildlife Monitoring Loxodonta Africana Automated Elephant Detection Spectral Signal Enhancement |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Ecology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics |
