The Masking of Beluga Whale . . .

• Main Author: Christine Erbe
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: Beluga; Beluga whale; Beluga*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.50.4650; http://pinger.ios.bc.ca/people/erbe/phd.ps.gz

human impact on nature and that my thesis can contribute to the conservation of our fascinating relatives, the whales and dolphins. By putting all our efforts together, step by step and piece by piece, I would like to believe that we can protect the environment and conserve the immense diversity of life on Earth for our children. 154 CHAPTER 9. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION whale's data closely. Both, however, involve the participation of humans and are thus more time consuming hence inefficient than the neural net. They also exhibit a subjective component. All other techniques, such as matched filtering, spectrogram cross-correlation, critical band cross-correlation, adaptive filtering and neural networks other than of backpropagation paradigm, did not manage to reproduce the whale's data appropriately. Future work should include further testing of the backpropagation network. Although it performed well on the four noises and the beluga vocalization chosen, a generalization