An acoustic system for the individual recognition of insects

Research into acoustic recognition systems for insects has focused on species identification rather than individual identification. In this paper, the feasibility of applying pattern recognition techniques to construct an acoustic system capable of automatic individual recognition for insects is investigated analytically and experimentally across two species of Orthoptera. Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients serve as the acoustic feature, and α-Gaussian mixture models were selected as the classification models. The performance of the proposed acoustic system is promising and displays high accuracy. The results suggest that the acoustic feature and classifier method developed here have potential for individual animal recognition and can be applied to other species of interest.