arXiv:2604.08087cs.SDcs.LG2026-04

针对非洲热带森林设计的多物种声学检测模型,提升濒危物种识别准确率。

DeepForestSound: a multi-species automatic detector for passive acoustic monitoring in African tropical forests, a case study in Kibale National Park

  • 用半监督聚类加人工校验构建标注数据,再微调音频变换器模型。
  • 对灵长类和大象等非鸟类物种平均精确率超0.96,优于现有工具。
  • 适合在缺乏标注数据的热带雨林地区开展长期生物多样性监测。

被动声学监测(PAM)广泛用于生物多样性评估,但在非洲热带森林中受限于标注数据稀缺,导致通用生态声学模型在未充分代表的类群上表现不佳。本研究提出DeepForestSound(DFS),一种专为非洲热带森林设计的多物种自动检测模型。该模型采用半监督流程:先对未标注录音进行聚类并人工验证,再使用低秩适配(LoRA)对音频频谱变换器(AST)进行监督微调,对比固定主干的线性探针基线(DFS-Linear)。模型可同时检测鸟类、灵长类和大象等多类群。训练数据来自乌干达基巴莱国家公园塞比托利区域,评估则在两年后同一森林内不同地点的独立数据集上进行,检验跨时间与跨站点的泛化能力。在12个分类群中的8个上,DFS优于现有自动检测工具,尤其在非鸟类类群表现突出,灵长类平均精度(AP)达0.964,大象为0.961。结果表明,基于LoRA的微调显著优于线性探针。研究证明,面向任务、区域定制的训练能显著提升复杂声学环境中检测性能,凸显DFS在非洲雨林生物多样性监测与保护中的实用潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) is widely used for biodiversity assessment. Its application in African tropical forests is limited by scarce annotated data, reducing the performance of general-purpose ecoacoustic models on underrepresented taxa. In this study, we introduce DeepForestSound (DFS), a multi-species automatic detection model designed for PAM in African tropical forests. DFS relies on a semi-supervised pipeline combining clustering of unannotated recordings with manual validation, followed by supervised fine-tuning of an Audio Spectrogram Transformer (AST) using low-rank adaptation, which is compared to a frozen-backbone linear baseline (DFS-Linear). The framework supports the detection of multiple taxonomic groups, including birds, primates, and elephants, from long-term acoustic recordings. DFS was trained on acoustic data collected in the Sebitoli area, in Kibale National Park, Uganda, and evaluated on an independent dataset recorded two years later at different locations within the same forest. This evaluation therefore assesses generalization across time and recording sites within a single tropical forest ecosystem. Across 8 out of 12 taxons, DFS outperforms existing automatic detection tools, particularly for non-avian taxa, achieving average AP values of 0.964 for primates and 0.961 for elephants. Results further show that LoRA-based fine-tuning substantially outperforms linear probing across taxa. Overall, these results demonstrate that task-oriented, region-specific training substantially improves detection performance in acoustically complex tropical environments, and highlight the potential of DFS as a practical tool for biodiversity monitoring and conservation in African rainforests.

声学监测多物种检测热带森林深度学习

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