A real-time bird sound recognition app via deep learning techniques
摘要
This study presents a real-time, on-device bird sound recognition system developed using deep transfer learning and optimized for mobile deployment. A curated Xeno-canto corpus, an open-access repository of wildlife sound recordings contributed by citizen scientists worldwide, comprising 610 Taiwanese bird species was used to evaluate six deep learning architectures: Residual Network-18 (ResNet-18), Yet Another Mobile Network (YAMNet), Visual Geometry Group-like Network for Audio Classification (VGGish), Convolutional Neural Network–Long Short-Term Memory (CNN-LSTM), Attention-based Convolutional Neural Network (Attention-CNN), and a Deep Neural Network (DNN) baseline. All models were trained using class weighting, batch normalization, a dropout rate of 0.2, and targeted data augmentation, including pitch shifting (±2 semitones), time stretching (0.8–1.2