Adaptive sensor arrays for acoustic monitoring of bird behavior and diversity: preliminary results on source identification using support vector machines

Abstract

This article summarizes the work in our laboratories toward developing adaptive sensor arrays for monitoring bird vocalizations. We have focused on four species of antbird in a tropical rainforest in Mexico. Preliminary results of individual identifications using support vector machines are presented. We also describe our initial attempts at higher-order processing of information about the identification and localization of each source.