Research progress in bird sounds recognition based on acoustic monitoring technology: A systematic review

Abstract

Bird sound contains rich ecological information, and its related research results can be applied to animal behavior analysis, natural information collection and ecological environment monitoring. Since the early manual monitoring methods, many researchers have continuously innovated and improved the bird sounds recognition technology to overcome the long-standing drawbacks of long cycle time, high cost and poor effectiveness. These developments make bird sounds recognition a highly interesting, but also highly challenging research topic. Acoustic monitoring technology plays a vital role in the automatic recognition of bird sounds. With the popularization of acoustic monitoring technology, the technical routes based on traditional recognition models and neural networks have increased sharply, which has greatly promoted the development of bird sounds recognition. In view of these main technical routes, this paper summarized the research status of bird sounds recognition, provided a summary table of a variety of bird sound sample datasets, introduced the application evolution of various recognition technologies, and analyzed its open challenges. Meanwhile, this paper also cited the published experimental exploration on the improvement of deep learning networks. In general, this paper gives a comprehensive overview of the research process of bird sounds recognition based on acoustic monitoring technology, which has important theoretical and practical value to promote the development of bird sounds recognition technology, and provides a valuable reference for future related research.