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http://dx.doi.org/10.7776/ASK.2019.38.1.039

Bird sounds classification by combining PNCC and robust Mel-log filter bank features  

Badi, Alzahra (School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University)
Ko, Kyungdeuk (School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University)
Ko, Hanseok (School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University)
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea / v.38, no.1, 2019 , pp. 39-46 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, combining features is proposed as a way to enhance the classification accuracy of sounds under noisy environments using the CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) structure. A robust log Mel-filter bank using Wiener filter and PNCCs (Power Normalized Cepstral Coefficients) are extracted to form a 2-dimensional feature that is used as input to the CNN structure. An ebird database is used to classify 43 types of bird species in their natural environment. To evaluate the performance of the combined features under noisy environments, the database is augmented with 3 types of noise under 4 different SNRs (Signal to Noise Ratios) (20 dB, 10 dB, 5 dB, 0 dB). The combined feature is compared to the log Mel-filter bank with and without incorporating the Wiener filter and the PNCCs. The combined feature is shown to outperform the other mentioned features under clean environments with a 1.34 % increase in overall average accuracy. Additionally, the accuracy under noisy environments at the 4 SNR levels is increased by 1.06 % and 0.65 % for shop and schoolyard noise backgrounds, respectively.
Keywords
Acoustic event recognition; Environmental sound classification; CNN (Convolutional Neural Network); Weiner filter; PNCCs (Power Normalized Cepstral Coefficients);
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