Efficient speech detection in environmental audio using acoustic recognition and knowledge distillation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09269v1
• Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:55:32 GMT
• Title: Efficient speech detection in environmental audio using acoustic recognition and knowledge distillation
• Authors: Drew Priebe, Burooj Ghani, Dan Stowell
• Abstract summary: Acoustic monitoring of biodiversity has emerged as an important monitoring tool. Despite significant strides in deep learning, the deployment of large neural networks on compact devices poses challenges due to memory and latency constraints. Our approach focuses on leveraging knowledge distillation techniques to design efficient, lightweight student models for speech detection in bioacoustics.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The ongoing biodiversity crisis, driven by factors such as land-use change and global warming, emphasizes the need for effective ecological monitoring methods. Acoustic monitoring of biodiversity has emerged as an important monitoring tool. Detecting human voices in soundscape monitoring projects is useful both for analysing human disturbance and for privacy filtering. Despite significant strides in deep learning in recent years, the deployment of large neural networks on compact devices poses challenges due to memory and latency constraints. Our approach focuses on leveraging knowledge distillation techniques to design efficient, lightweight student models for speech detection in bioacoustics. In particular, we employed the MobileNetV3-Small-Pi model to create compact yet effective student architectures to compare against the larger EcoVAD teacher model, a well-regarded voice detection architecture in eco-acoustic monitoring. The comparative analysis included examining various configurations of the MobileNetV3-Small-Pi derived student models to identify optimal performance. Additionally, a thorough evaluation of different distillation techniques was conducted to ascertain the most effective method for model selection. Our findings revealed that the distilled models exhibited comparable performance to the EcoVAD teacher model, indicating a promising approach to overcoming computational barriers for real-time ecological monitoring.

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