Classification of bearded seals signal based on convolutional neural network

Abstract

Several studies using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) have been conducted to detect and classify the sounds of marine mammals in underwater acoustic data collected through passive acoustic monitoring. In this study, the possibility of automatic classification of bearded seal sounds was confirmed using a CNN model based on the underwater acoustic spectrogram images collected from August 2017 to August 2018 in East Siberian Sea. When only the clear seal sound was used as training dataset, overfitting due to memorization was occurred. By evaluating the entire training data by replacing some training data with data containing noise, it was confirmed that overfitting was prevented as the model was generalized more than before with accuracy (0.9743), precision (0.9783), recall (0.9520). As a result, the performance of the classification model for bearded seals signal has improved when the noise was included in the training data.