The Raven-X Software Package. A scalable high-performance computing framework in Matlab for the analysis of large bioacoustic sound archives. ...

• Main Authors: Dugan, Peter, Zollweg, John, Roch, Marie, Helble, Tyler, Pitzrick, Michael, Clark, Christopher, Klinck, Holger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Silbido; Blue whale; Fin whale; Humpback Whale; minke whale
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1221417; https://zenodo.org/record/1221417

Raven-X is a software package designed for scalable high-performance computing. The software framework is written in Matlab and uses parallel-distributed computing for the analysis of large bioacoustic sound archives. This application contains various algorithms used for marine mammal sound detection. The various algorithms are available as sub-modules. These include Matched-Filter processing (DTP1D sub-module), Advanced Segmentation Recognition for tonal and pulse trains (ASR sub-module), Whistle Detection and Tracking (Silbido sub-module) and Generalized Power Law (GPL sub-module). These algorithms have a variety of pre-defined methods tuned for detecting Minke Whale, Humpback Whale, Fin Whale, Blue Whale, Elephant Rumbles, Elephant Gunshot and Mid Frequency Sonar. Users with development skills are welcome to create variations of these detectors, or interface new algorithms to the HPC software system. The full version of the software provides a user interface for operation. Operators can select the various ...