Bird Sound Classification: Leveraging Deep Learning for Species Identification

Ardon Kotey, Allan Almeida, Nihal Gupta and Vinaya Sawant

International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology, 2024, vol. 10, issue 3, 473-483

Abstract: Birds are meaningful to a wide audience including the public. They live in almost every type of environment and in almost every niche (place or role) within those environments. The monitoring of species diversity and migration is important for almost all conservation efforts. The analysis of long-term audio data is vital to support those efforts but relies on complex algorithms that need to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are powerful toolkits of machine learning that have proven efficient in the field of image processing and sound recognition. In this paper, a CNN system classifying bird sounds is presented and tested through different configurations and hyperparameters. The MobileNet pre-trained CNN model is finetuned using a dataset acquired from the Xeno-canto bird song sharing portal, which provides a large collection of labeled and categorized recordings. Spectrograms generated from the downloaded data represent the input of the neural network. The attached experiments compare various configurations including the number of classes (bird species) and the color scheme of the spectrograms. Results suggest that choosing a color map in line with the images the network has been pre-trained with provides a measurable advantage. The presented system is viable only for a low number of classes.

Keywords: Convolutional Neural Network; Bird Sound Recognition; Transfer Learning; Audio Classification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.32628/CSEIT24103127

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