scholarly journals Peer Review #1 of "Species-specific audio detection: a comparison of three template-based detection algorithms using random forests (v0.1)"

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Random Forests ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Species Specific

scholarly journals Species-specific audio detection: a comparison of three template-based detection algorithms using random forests

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. e113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos J. Corrada Bravo ◽  
Rafael Álvarez Berríos ◽  
T. Mitchell Aide
Keyword(s):  
Random Forest ◽  
Random Forests ◽  
Random Forest Classifier ◽  
Statistical Features ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Average Accuracy ◽  
Species Specific ◽  
Web Based System

We developed a web-based cloud-hosted system that allow users to archive, listen, visualize, and annotate recordings. The system also provides tools to convert these annotations into datasets that can be used to train a computer to detect the presence or absence of a species. The algorithm used by the system was selected after comparing the accuracy and efficiency of three variants of a template-based detection. The algorithm computes a similarity vector by comparing a template of a species call with time increments across the spectrogram. Statistical features are extracted from this vector and used as input for a Random Forest classifier that predicts presence or absence of the species in the recording. The fastest algorithm variant had the highest average accuracy and specificity; therefore, it was implemented in the ARBIMON web-based system.

scholarly journals Species-specific audio detection: A comparison of three template-based classification algorithms using random forests

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos J Corrada Bravo ◽  
Rafael Álvarez Berríos ◽  
T. Mitchell Aide
Keyword(s):  
Random Forest ◽  
Random Forests ◽  
Random Forest Classifier ◽  
Classification Algorithms ◽  
Statistical Features ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Average Accuracy ◽  
Species Specific ◽  
Web Based System

We developed a web-based cloud-hosted system that allow users to archive, listen, visualize, and annotate recordings. The system also provides tools to convert these annotations into datasets that can be used to train a computer to detect the presence or absence of a species. The algorithm used by the system was selected after comparing the accuracy and efficiency of three variants of a template-based classification. The algorithm computes a similarity vector by comparing a template of a species call with time increments across the spectrogram. Statistical features are extracted from this vector and used as input for a Random Forest classifier that predicts presence or absence of the species in the recording. The fastest algorithm variant had the highest average accuracy and specificity; therefore, it was implemented in the ARBIMON web-based system.

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