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PASSIVE ACOUSTIC TRACKING OF WHALES IN 3-D

DOI:
10.60864/q2mk-tr96
Citation Author(s):
Submitted by:
Junsu Jang
Last updated:
17 November 2023 - 12:07pm
Document Type:
Poster
Document Year:
2023
Event:
Presenters:
Junsu Jang
Paper Code:
2632
 

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a nonintrusive approach to studying behaviors of vocalizing marine organisms underwater that otherwise would remain unexplored. In this paper, we propose a data processing chain that can detect and track multiple whales in 3-D from passively recorded underwater acoustic signals. In particular, time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) measurements of echolocation clicks are extracted from a volumetric hydrophone array's acoustic data by using a noise-whitening cross-correlation. For multi-target tracking, the TDOA measurements are then processed by a Bayesian inference engine consisting of two stages that is based on the sum-product algorithm (SPA). Particle flow is embedded in the SPA to make tracking computationally feasible in the considered nonlinear and high-dimensional scenario. The capability to track multiple whales without human intervention is demonstrated in scenarios with simulated and real data.

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