Demos of bird song explorer

Here are some demos of the bird song explorer, which simulates acoustic environments of bird songs localized by HARKBird.

You can experience two cases of experimental observations of Japanese Bush-Warblers recorded in the experimental forest (Inabu-field) in Nagoya University:

• Normal condition (N1): There was no playback from a speaker. Songs of an individual around the microphone array are replayed in a simulated terrain and forest environment. The location of songs were estimated by using the localization results by HARKBird.
• Playback condition (SH-F8): A pre-recorded song of the focal individual are replayed in addition to the songs of the focal individual.

For detail, please see the following paper:

Reiji Suzuki, Shinji Sumitani, Shiho Matsubayashi, Takaya Arita, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Field observations of ecoacoustic dynamics of a Japanese bush warbler using an open-source software for robot audition HARK, Journal of Ecoacoustics, 2: #EYAJ46 (11 pages) (2018/06)

Note: We used Unity-chan (© Unity Technologies Japan/UCL) for the representation of the avatar.