Tadarida: A Toolbox for Animal Detection on Acoustic Recordings

Yves Bas; Didier Bas; Jean-François Julien

doi:10.5334/jors.154

Tadarida: A Toolbox for Animal Detection on Acoustic Recordings

Journal of Open Research Software

Volume 5 (2017): Issue 1

By: Yves Bas , Didier Bas and Jean-François Julien

Open Access

|Feb 2017

Abstract

Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) recently extended to a very wide range of animals, but no available open software has been sufficiently generic to automatically treat several taxonomic groups. Here we present Tadarida, a software toolbox allowing for the detection and labelling of recorded sound events, and to classify any new acoustic data into known classes. It is made up of three modules handling Detection, Labelling and Classification and running on either Linux or Windows. This development resulted in the first open software (1) allowing generic sound event detection (multi-taxa), (2) providing graphical sound labelling at a single-instance level and (3) covering the whole process from sound detection to classification. This generic and modular design opens numerous reuse opportunities among (bio)acoustics researchers, especially for those managing and/or developing PAM schemes.

The whole toolbox is openly developed in C++ (Detection and Labelling) and R (Classification) and stored at https://github.com/YvesBas.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.154 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647

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Language: English

Submitted on: Nov 8, 2016

Accepted on: Feb 10, 2017

Published on: Feb 21, 2017

Published by: Ubiquity Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

Acoustic Recording Unit (ARU),

bioacoustics,

animal calls classification,

sound event detection,

species monitoring

© 2017 Yves Bas, Didier Bas, Jean-François Julien, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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