Decision support for the efficient annotation of bioacoustic events
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01/01/2015
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Acoustic sensors allow scientists to scale environmental monitoring over large spatiotemporal scales. The faunal vocalisations captured by these sensors can answer ecological questions, however, identifying these vocalisations within recorded audio is difficult: automatic recognition is currently intractable and manual recognition is slow and error prone. In this paper, a semi-automated approach to call recognition is presented. An automated decision support tool is tested that assists users in the manual annotation process. The respective strengths of human and computer analysis are used to complement one another. The tool recommends the species of an unknown vocalisation and thereby minimises the need for the memorization of a large corpus of vocalisations. In the case of a folksonomic tagging system, recommending species tags also minimises the proliferation of redundant tag categories. We describe two algorithms: (1) a “naïve” decision support tool (16%–64% sensitivity) with efficiency of O(n) but which becomes unscalable as more data is added and (2) a scalable alternative with 48% sensitivity and an efficiency ofO(log n). The improved algorithm was also tested in a HTML-based annotation prototype. The result of this work is a decision support tool for annotating faunal acoustic events that may be utilised by other bioacoustics projects. |
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Elsevier |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/79385/1/SuggestionTool-AfterAcceptance.pdf DOI:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.10.001 Truskinger, Anthony, Towsey, Michael, & Roe, Paul (2015) Decision support for the efficient annotation of bioacoustic events. Ecological Informatics, 25, pp. 14-21. |
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Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Ecological Informatics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Ecological Informatics, Volume 25, January 2015, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.10.001 |
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School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Faculty of Science and Technology; Science & Engineering Faculty |
Palavras-Chave | #089999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified #Similarity search #Bioacoustics #Annotations #Semi-automated #Decision support #Faunal vocalisation |
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Journal Article |