Automatic birdsong recognition based on autoregressive time-delay neural networks

Abstract

A template-based technique for automatic recognition of birdsong syllables is presented. This technique combines time delay neural networks (TDNNs) with an autoregressive (AR) version of the backpropagation algorithm in order to improve the accuracy of bird species identification. The proposed neural network structure (AR-TDNN) has the advantage of dealing with a pattern classification of syllable alphabet and also of capturing the temporal structure of birdsong. We choose to carry out trials on song patterns obtained from sixteen species living in New Brunswick province of Canada. The results show that the proposed AR-TDNN system achieves a highly recognition rate compared to the baseline backpropagation-based system