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PASSIVE ACOUSTIC TRACKING OF WHALES IN 3-D
- DOI:
- 10.60864/q2mk-tr96
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- Submitted by:
- Junsu Jang
- Last updated:
- 17 November 2023 - 12:07pm
- Document Type:
- Poster
- Document Year:
- 2023
- Event:
- Presenters:
- Junsu Jang
- Paper Code:
- 2632
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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.