Bird Species Identification Using Spectrogram Based on Multi-Channel Fusion of DCNNs

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have achieved breakthrough performance on bird species identification using a spectrogram of bird vocalization. Aiming at the imbalance of the bird vocalization dataset, a single feature identification model (SFIM) with residual blocks and modified, weighte...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:2ca38a7e0955475892901a44421f3ddc2021-11-25T17:30:21ZBird Species Identification Using Spectrogram Based on Multi-Channel Fusion of DCNNs10.3390/e231115071099-4300https://doaj.org/article/2ca38a7e0955475892901a44421f3ddc2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/11/1507https://doaj.org/toc/1099-4300Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have achieved breakthrough performance on bird species identification using a spectrogram of bird vocalization. Aiming at the imbalance of the bird vocalization dataset, a single feature identification model (SFIM) with residual blocks and modified, weighted, cross-entropy function was proposed. To further improve the identification accuracy, two multi-channel fusion methods were built with three SFIMs. One of these fused the outputs of the feature extraction parts of three SFIMs (feature fusion mode), the other fused the outputs of the classifiers of three SFIMs (result fusion mode). The SFIMs were trained with three different kinds of spectrograms, which were calculated through short-time Fourier transform, mel-frequency cepstrum transform and chirplet transform, respectively. To overcome the shortage of the huge number of trainable model parameters, transfer learning was used in the multi-channel models. Using our own vocalization dataset as a sample set, it is found that the result fusion mode model outperforms the other proposed models, the best mean average precision (MAP) reaches 0.914. Choosing three durations of spectrograms, 100 ms, 300 ms and 500 ms for comparison, the results reveal that the 300 ms duration is the best for our own dataset. The duration is suggested to be determined based on the duration distribution of bird syllables. As for the performance with the training dataset of BirdCLEF2019, the highest classification mean average precision (cmAP) reached 0.135, which means the proposed model has certain generalization ability.Feiyu ZhangLuyang ZhangHongxiang ChenJiangjian XieMDPI AGarticlebird vocalizationspectrogram featuremulti-channeldeep convolutional neuralScienceQAstrophysicsQB460-466PhysicsQC1-999ENEntropy, Vol 23, Iss 1507, p 1507 (2021)
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topic bird vocalization
spectrogram feature
multi-channel
deep convolutional neural
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Physics
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spellingShingle bird vocalization
spectrogram feature
multi-channel
deep convolutional neural
Science
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Astrophysics
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Physics
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Feiyu Zhang
Luyang Zhang
Hongxiang Chen
Jiangjian Xie
Bird Species Identification Using Spectrogram Based on Multi-Channel Fusion of DCNNs
description Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have achieved breakthrough performance on bird species identification using a spectrogram of bird vocalization. Aiming at the imbalance of the bird vocalization dataset, a single feature identification model (SFIM) with residual blocks and modified, weighted, cross-entropy function was proposed. To further improve the identification accuracy, two multi-channel fusion methods were built with three SFIMs. One of these fused the outputs of the feature extraction parts of three SFIMs (feature fusion mode), the other fused the outputs of the classifiers of three SFIMs (result fusion mode). The SFIMs were trained with three different kinds of spectrograms, which were calculated through short-time Fourier transform, mel-frequency cepstrum transform and chirplet transform, respectively. To overcome the shortage of the huge number of trainable model parameters, transfer learning was used in the multi-channel models. Using our own vocalization dataset as a sample set, it is found that the result fusion mode model outperforms the other proposed models, the best mean average precision (MAP) reaches 0.914. Choosing three durations of spectrograms, 100 ms, 300 ms and 500 ms for comparison, the results reveal that the 300 ms duration is the best for our own dataset. The duration is suggested to be determined based on the duration distribution of bird syllables. As for the performance with the training dataset of BirdCLEF2019, the highest classification mean average precision (cmAP) reached 0.135, which means the proposed model has certain generalization ability.
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author Feiyu Zhang
Luyang Zhang
Hongxiang Chen
Jiangjian Xie
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Luyang Zhang
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title Bird Species Identification Using Spectrogram Based on Multi-Channel Fusion of DCNNs
title_short Bird Species Identification Using Spectrogram Based on Multi-Channel Fusion of DCNNs
title_full Bird Species Identification Using Spectrogram Based on Multi-Channel Fusion of DCNNs
title_fullStr Bird Species Identification Using Spectrogram Based on Multi-Channel Fusion of DCNNs
title_full_unstemmed Bird Species Identification Using Spectrogram Based on Multi-Channel Fusion of DCNNs
title_sort bird species identification using spectrogram based on multi-channel fusion of dcnns
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