Cicada Species Recognition Based on Acoustic Signals

Abstract

Traditional methods used to identify and monitor insect species are time-consuming, costly, and fully dependent on the observer’s ability. This paper presents a deep learning-based cicada species recognition system using acoustic signals to classify the cicada species. The sound recordings of cicada species were collected from different online sources and pre-processed using denoising algorithms. An improved Härmä syllable segmentation method is introduced to segment the audio signals into syllables since the syllables play a key role in identifying the cicada species. After that, a visual representation of the audio signal was obtained using a spectrogram, which was fed to a convolutional neural network (CNN) to perform classification. The experimental results validated the robustness of the proposed method by achieving accuracies ranging from 66.67% to 100%.