On Marine Mammal Acoustic Detection Performance Bounds

2015/10/12 by Yin Xian, Loren Nolte, Xian, Yin +7
Physics and Astronomy · #Data Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) #physics.data-an #physics.ins-det

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1510.05520

10 pages

arxiv created 2015/10/20 · arxiv updated 2015/10/21

Abstract

Since the spectrogram does not preserve phase information contained in the original data, any algorithm based on the spectrogram is not likely to be optimum for detection. In this paper, we present the Short Time Fourier Transform detector to detect marine mammals in the time-frequency plane. The detector uses phase information for detection. We evaluate this detector by comparing it to the existing spectrogram based detectors for different SNRs and various environments including a known ocean, uncertain ocean, and mean ocean. The results show that this detector outperforms the spectrogram based detector. Simulations are presented using the polynomial phase signal model of the North Atlantic Right Whale (NARW), along with the bellhop ray tracing model.

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