Napier, Thomas, Ahn, Euijoon, Allen-Ankins, Slade, Schwarzkopf, Lin, and Lee, Ickjai (2024) Advancements in preprocessing, detection and classification techniques for ecoacoustic data: A comprehensive review for large-scale passive acoustic monitoring. Expert Systems with Applications, 252 (Part B). 124220.

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Abstract

Computational ecoacoustics has seen significant growth in recent decades, facilitated by the reduced costs of digital sound recording devices and data storage. This progress has enabled the continuous monitoring of vocal fauna through Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), a technique used to record and analyse environmental sounds to study animal behaviours and their habitats. While the collection of ecoacoustic data has become more accessible, the effective analysis of this information to understand animal behaviours and monitor populations remains a major challenge. This survey paper presents the state-of-the-art ecoacoustics data analysis approaches, with a focus on their applicability to large-scale PAM. We emphasise the importance of large-scale PAM, as it enables extensive geographical coverage and continuous monitoring, crucial for comprehensive biodiversity assessment and understanding ecological dynamics over wide areas and diverse habitats. This large-scale approach is particularly vital in the face of rapid environmental changes, as it provides crucial insights into the effects of these changes on a broad array of species and ecosystems. As such, we outline the most challenging large-scale ecoacoustics data analysis tasks, including pre-processing, visualisation, data labelling, detection, and classification. Each is evaluated according to its strengths, weaknesses and overall suitability to large-scale PAM, and recommendations are made for future research directions.

Item ID:	82825
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	0957-4174
Copyright Information:	© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Date Deposited:	11 Jun 2024 00:45
FoR Codes:	41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 4102 Ecological applications > 410299 Ecological applications not elsewhere classified @ 40% 46 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES > 4602 Artificial intelligence > 460299 Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified @ 60%
SEO Codes:	22 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SERVICES > 2204 Information systems, technologies and services > 220402 Applied computing @ 70% 28 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 2801 Expanding knowledge > 280102 Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences @ 30%
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