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// AUDIO AI

Animal Sound Recognition

Audio classification pipeline for recognizing animal sounds using YAMNet and classical audio features, optimized for edge deployment.

YAMNetPythonTensorFlowMFCCMel SpectrogramTensorFlow Lite

Overview

Developed an end-to-end audio classification pipeline for animal sound recognition using Google's YAMNet alongside MFCC and Mel spectrogram features. The pipeline was optimized for lightweight inference and edge deployment, achieving a recall of 0.846.

Problem

Animal sound analysis can require processing large volumes of audio while operating under constrained computational resources. A lightweight classification pipeline is needed to extract meaningful acoustic features and perform reliable recognition on edge devices.

Dataset Context

Name

Animal Sound Dataset

Metadata Matrix Size

Not specified

Telemetry Source

Dataset-dependent

Pipeline Preprocessing Steps

  • »Audio normalization and preprocessing
  • »MFCC feature extraction
  • »Mel spectrogram generation
  • »YAMNet embeddings for transfer learning
  • »Feature preparation for lightweight inference

Architecture & Technical Foundation

Core Pattern

YAMNet + Audio Feature Classification

Technology Stack

TensorFlow

Key Components

  • •YAMNet pretrained audio embeddings
  • •MFCC-based acoustic feature extraction
  • •Mel spectrogram generation
  • •Audio classification pipeline
  • •Lightweight inference optimization for edge devices

System Workflow

01

Audio Preprocessing

Load and preprocess animal audio recordings for consistent classification input.

02

Feature Extraction

Extract MFCCs and Mel spectrogram representations from the audio signals.

03

YAMNet Embeddings

Generate pretrained YAMNet audio embeddings to capture high-level acoustic features.

04

Classification

Use extracted audio representations for animal sound classification.

05

Evaluation

Evaluate classification performance with recall as a key metric.

06

Edge Optimization

Optimize the inference pipeline for deployment on resource-constrained TinyML and edge platforms.

Results & Outcomes

0.846

Recall

  • ✓Achieved 0.846 recall for animal sound recognition
  • ✓Combined YAMNet embeddings with MFCC and Mel spectrogram features
  • ✓Optimized the inference pipeline for TinyML and edge deployment