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Separation of odontocete click trains by rhythmic analysis

Olivier Le Bot
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Jerome I. Mars
Cedric Gervaise
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Résumé

Most odontocetes live in pods of several individuals, resulting in an overlapping of click trains recorded by passive acoustic monitoring systems. Localization algorithms and click classifiers are usually used for train separation. However, their performances fall down if individuals are too close to each other or if acoustical parameters vary greatly from click to click, respectively. Assuming odontocete clicks follow rhythmic patterns, we propose to use a rhythm analysis to separate mixed click trains using a single hydrophone. The proposed algorithm is based only on inter-click-intervals (ICI) to cluster clicks into trains. It uses information given by complex-valued autocorrelation to compute a histogram which will exhibit peaks at ICIs corresponding to interleaved trains. By this technique, subharmonics corresponding to multiples of ICIs are automatically suppressed. The algorithm is then extended by a time-period analysis leading to a time-varying ICI spectrum. A threshold can be applied on this spectrum to detect the different interleaved trains. The final result is a binary time-ICI map on which trains can be fully and easily distinguished. From this binary map we can retrieve which clicks belong to each identified click-train and extract them so that click trains of each individual are now isolated from the others.
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hal-00986582 , version 1 (02-05-2014)

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Olivier Le Bot, Yvan Simard, Jerome I. Mars, Cedric Gervaise. Separation of odontocete click trains by rhythmic analysis. DCLDE 2013 - 6th International Workshop on Detection, Classification, Localization, and Density Estimation of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics, Jun 2013, Saint Andrews, United Kingdom. pp.52. ⟨hal-00986582⟩
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