Man2Marine : Marine mammal sound classification in small samples by transfer learning from human sound data

Qianglong Yi, Chenggang Xie, Donghai Guan, Weiwei Yuan

Abstract: Highlights•Man2Marine utilizes large amounts of human voice data for transfer learning.•Man2Marine reduces reliance on marine mammal sound datasets.•Man2Marine achieves a balance between classification accuracy and model size.•Man2Marine proves that marine mammal sounds and human sounds have overlapping and similar feature spaces.