Discrimination and retrieval of animal sounds

Until recently few research has been performed in the area of animal sound retrieval. The authors identify stateof-the-art techniques in general purpose sound recognition by a broad survey of literature. Based on the findings, this paper gives a thorough investigation of audio features and classifiers and their applicability in the domain of animal sounds. We introduce a set of novel audio descriptors and compare their quality to other popular features. The results are encouraging and motivate further research in this domain.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: MMM
• Authors: Dalibor Mitrovic, Matthias Zeppelzauer, Christian Breiteneder
• Keywords: Animal Sound Retrieval, Animal Sounds, MMM 2006, Multimedia, Purpose Sound Recognition