A Highly Efficient Marine Mammals Classifier Based on a Cross-Covariance Attended Compact Feed-Forward Sequential Memory Network (Student Abstract)

Abstract Military active sonar and marine transportation are detrimental to the livelihood of marine mammals and the ecosystem. Early detection and classification of marine mammals using machine learning can help humans to mitigate the harm to marine mammals. This paper proposes a cross-covariance attended compact Feed-Forward Sequential Memory Network (CC-FSMN). The proposed framework shows improved efficiency over multiple convolutional neural network (CNN) backbones. It also maintains a relatively decent performance.