Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

2014

Document Type

Dissertation

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Zhuang, Hanqi

Abstract

Ocean is home to a large population of marine mammals such as dolphins and whales and concerns over anthropogenic activities in the regions close to their habitants have been increased. Therefore the ability to detect the presence of these species in the field, to analyze and classify their vocalization patterns for signs of distress and distortion of their communication calls will prove to be invaluable in protecting these species. The objective of this research is to investigate methods that automatically detect and classify vocalization patterns of marine mammals. The first work performed is the classification of bottlenose dolphin calls by type. The extraction of salient and distinguishing features from recordings is a major part of this endeavor. To this end, two strategies are evaluated with real datasets provided by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: The first strategy is to use contour-based features such as Time-Frequency Parameters and Fourier Descriptors and the second is to employ texture-based features such as Local Binary Patterns (LBP) and Gabor Wavelets. Once dolphin whistle features are extracted for spectrograms, selection of classification procedures is crucial to the success of the process. For this purpose, the performances of classifiers such as K-Nearest Neighbor, Support Vector Machine, and Sparse Representation Classifier (SRC) are assessed thoroughly, together with those of the underlined feature extractors.

Extent

166 p.

Comments

Includes bibliography.|Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Includes bibliography.

Identifier

FA00004282

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