Convolutional Neural Network for Sound Processing - Study of Deployed Application

Pest birds are considered as a special kind of vermin, since, in most of countries, their legal position does not enable their direct extermination. Therefore, in order to protect the agricultural areas indirectly from pest birds, the robust and highly selective pest bird sensor is necessary to design. In this contribution, the pest bird detection unit, based on a convolutional neural network, is presented. The convolutional neural network itself is used for the decision making about the pest bird occurrence, while sound recordings are used as input data. The testings, presented at the end of the contribution, proved a very high accuracy of the detection unit, with the results indispensably improved in comparison to previously presented approaches.