Google Humpback Whale Pacific

humpback whale
A spectrogram based model for detecting North Atlantic right whale up-sweeps

Introduction

This is a spectrogram based model for detecting humpback whales developed by a collaboration between Google and NOAA.

Note that this model is also available as an example model within PAMGuard.

Google humpback whale classifier running in PAMGuard

Species

  1. Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Geographic location of training data

Hawaiian archipelago

Reference

A. N. Allen et al., ‘A Convolutional Neural Network for Automated Detection of Humpback Whale Song in a Diverse, Long-Term Passive Acoustic Dataset’, Front. Mar. Sci., vol. 8, p. 607321, Mar. 2021 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.607321

Model

The original model can be found on Kaggle here.

The PAMGuard compatible model can be found here.

An example settings file can be found here.