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Detection and Segmentation of Bird Song in Noisy Environments

Detection and Segmentation of Bird Song in Noisy Environments. Lawrence Neal, UHC Honors Thesis. Bioacoustics Project. Bird Species Identifiable by species Presence/Absence, activity data is useful Bird activity may shift in response to climate change, ecological factors.

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Detection and Segmentation of Bird Song in Noisy Environments

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  1. Detection and Segmentation of Bird Song in Noisy Environments Lawrence Neal, UHC Honors Thesis

  2. Bioacoustics Project • Bird Species • Identifiable by species • Presence/Absence, activity data is useful • Bird activity may shift in response to climate change, ecological factors

  3. Bioacoustics Project

  4. Automated Recording • Song Meter automated recorders • Collected May-August beginning 2009

  5. Audio Data Analysis • Involves several steps: • Extracting Bird Sound from Audio • Identifying Bird Species • Mapping species data back to sites

  6. Audio Data Analysis • Involves several steps: • Extracting Bird Sound from Audio (Segmentation) • Identifying Bird Species • Mapping species data back to sites

  7. Segmentation • Time-Domain Segmentation • Separates audio into multiple clips • Energy Thresholding, Onset/Offset Detection • Has been applied to bird song • Harma 2003, Fagerlund 2004, Lee 2008

  8. Segmentation • Time-Domain Segmentation

  9. Segmentation • Time-Domain Segmentation • Cannot separate overlapping sounds

  10. Segmentation • Time-Frequency Segmentation • Segment regions of the 2D spectrogram

  11. Segmentation • Spectrogram Segmentation • Similar to image segmentation

  12. Spectrograms • Two-dimensional representation of sound • Audio amplitude at each (time, frequency) • Generated by short-time Fourier Transform Male voice saying 'nineteenth century'. Violin playing (note harmonics)

  13. Spectrograms • Tradeoffs in parameters • Larger STFT size • Higher freq. resolution

  14. Spectrograms • Tradeoffs in parameters • Shorter step size • Higher time resolution

  15. Spectrogram Segments • Each segment is a continuous region • Defined by a binary mask over the spectrogram

  16. Spectrogram Segments • Can be converted back to audio with inverse STFT, or left as 2D segments

  17. Segmentation Methods • Per-Pixel Random Forest • Trains on one feature vector per pixel • Outputs probability per-pixel • Superpixel Merger Method • First splits spectrogram into ‘superpixels’ • Trains on one feature vector per superpixel • Second classifier trains per superpixel pair • Outputs connected sets of superpixels

  18. Random Forest • Supervised Classifier • Trains on human-provided data with labels • “Feature Vector” of values, each with yes/no label • Learns to mimic the human’s labels • Based on decision trees: • Tree is traversed with feature vector X • Each interior node is a decision of the type: • If (Xd < θ)go left; else go right • Each leaf node contains a class label • In this case, two classes: ‘Bird Sound’ and ‘Negative’

  19. Random Forest • Constructed by recursive procedure • Check if all remaining examples are the same • If so, finish with a leaf node • Select a random subset of features • For each one, find the optimal split (highest Gini) • Choose the (feature, split) pair for maximum Gini coefficient and create new interior node • Split the examples and recursively create two child nodes • Classification is a vote among all trees

  20. Per-Pixel Training • Hand-Drawn mask over spectrogram • Pixels are randomly sampled

  21. Per-Pixel Training • Feature vector includes: • Pixel Frequency • Window Variance • All window pixel values

  22. Per-Pixel Output • Probability Mask over the spectrogram • Threshold is applied to extract segments

  23. Per-Pixel Output

  24. Per-Pixel Output

  25. Per-Pixel Output

  26. Per-Pixel Limitations • Scope is limited to window size • High threshold causes oversegmentation • Low threshold causes undersegmentation • Slow- must classify for each pixel

  27. Superpixel Method • Begins with an initial pre-segmentation • Modification of Simple Linear Iterative Clustering (SLIC) image segmentation • Uses computed features that describe regions of the spectrogram • Segments are sets of superpixels

  28. Superpixel Clustering • Based on SLIC method: • Each pixel is assigned a 5-valued vector • (X,Y, L, a, b) for position and color • Locally-constrained K-Means Clustering • Each centroid searches only a radius of 2S • S = sqrt(N/K) • Creates a set of regularly-sized regions • Some regions’ boundaries follow the edges of larger objects in the image

  29. Superpixel Clustering • Over-segments an image • Edges of clusters arealong image edges • But, doesn’t workfor spectrograms

  30. Superpixel Clustering • Spectrograms lack edges • Also, only one channel of color • Instead of (x,y,L,a,b), we use a new vector: • (x, y, B, V, Gx, Gy, Px, Py)

  31. Superpixel Clustering • X,Y values • Time and frequency values in the spectrogram • B, V • Pixel values after Gaussian blur, variance of pixel values • Gx,Gy • Horizontal/Vertical Sobel Gradient values • Px, Py • Time and Frequency values of nearest peak (weighted by Gaussian kernel)

  32. Superpixel Clustering

  33. Foreground/Background Classifier • Random Forest trained using the same manual spectrogram labels as per-pixel • Each superpixel is labeled positive (foreground) if more than 10% of its area overlaps with a positive-labeled region • Feature vector describes superpixel: • Mean and variance of pixel values, blurred pixel values, peak frequencies • Histogram of Oriented Gradients

  34. Foreground/Background Classifier

  35. Superpixel Merger Classifier • Random Forest trained to classify pairs of adjacent superpixels • Positive classification: Merge together • Negative classification: Split apart • After background pixels are discarded, all remaining edges between superpixels are classified • All edges above a threshold are merged

  36. Superpixel Merger Classifier

  37. Superpixel Method Output

  38. Superpixel Method Output

  39. Superpixel Method Output

  40. Superpixel Method Output

  41. Superpixel Method Output

  42. Superpixel Method Output

  43. Evaluation Datasets • HJ Andrews dataset, 625 recordings • Each 15 seconds long • Drawn 2 each from 24 hours • “Set A” dataset, 166 recordings • All from early and mid morning • Paired by year, 2009/2010

  44. Differences in Training Data

  45. Results

  46. Results

  47. Results

  48. Results

  49. Future Work • Superpixel Method is promising • Faster than per-pixel classification • Could use more sophisticated merger technique

  50. Bibliography • A. Harma, “Automatic identification of bird species based on sinusoidal modeling of syllables,” in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, April 2003, pp. 545–548. • Chang-Hsing Lee, Chin-Chuan Han, and Ching-Chien Chuang, “Automatic classification of bird species from their sounds using two-dimensional cepstralcoefficients,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 1541 – 1550, 2008. • Leo Breiman, “Random forests,” Machine Learning, pp. 5–32, January 2001. • Fagerlund, Seppo. Automatic Recognition of Bird Species by Their Sounds. Master’s Thesis, HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing. Nov. 8, 2004

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