Dear Colleagues, My Ph.D. dissertation on dolphin whistle classification and north Atlantic right whale upcall detection is now available at the following link: "Detection and Classification of Marine Mammal Sounds" https://goo.gl/LpRcKo
The following papers have been published from my Ph.D. program: 1) "Using local binary patterns as features for classification of dolphin calls," *The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America*, *134*(1), EL105-EL111, 2013. http://goo.gl/l4Klbw 2) "Sparse representation for classification of dolphin whistles by type," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 136 (1), EL1-EL7, 2014. http://goo.gl/PYznCw 3) M. Esfahanian, H. Zhuang, N. Erdol and E. Gerstein, "Comparison of two methods for detection of North Atlantic Right Whale upcalls," *Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2015 23rd European*, Nice, 2015, pp. 559-563. http://goo.gl/qOVux1 4) "Application of gabor wavelets and sparse representation for classification of dolphin whistle," *2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)*, Florence, 2014, pp. 6038-6042. "A new approach of classification of dolphin whistles" http://goo.gl/yjvPE3 5) "On contour-based classification of dolphin whistles by type," Applied Acoustics, 76, 274-279, 2014. http://goo.gl/Sxr51w Please read my Ph.D. dissertation and corresponding papers and please cite them in your scientific papers as I critically need your citations in order to continue my research and better serve the bioacoustic community. Thank you very much and appreciate your help, Regards, Mahdi -- Mahdi Esfahanian, Ph.D. Department of Computer and Electrical Eng. and Computer Science Florida Atlantic University
