Refereed journal

  1. P. Li, X. Liu, H. Klinck, P. Gruden, M. A. Roch (2023), “Using deep learning to track time × frequency whistle contours of toothed whales without human-annotated training data,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 154(1), pp. 502-517. doi:10.1121/10.0020274.
  2. E. Fleishman, D. Cholewiak, D. Gillespie, T. Helble, H. Klinck, E. M. Nosal, and M. A. Roch (2023). “Ecological inferences about marine mammals from passive acoustic data,” Biological Reviews, pp. 15, doi:10.1111/brv.12969.

  3. P. Li, M. A. Roch, H. Klinck, E. Fleishman, D. Gillespie, E.-M. Nosal, Y. Shiu, and X. Liu (2023). “Learning stage-wise GANs for whistle extraction in time-frequency spectrograms,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, pp. 13, doi:10.1109/TMM.2023.3251109.

  4. P. Conant. P. Li, X. Liu, H. Klinck, E. Fleishman, D. Gillespie, E.-M. Nosal, and M. A. Roch (2022). “Silbido profundo: An open source package for the use of deep learning to detect odontocete whistles,” J. Acoustical Soc. Am., 152(6), pp. 3800-3808. doi:10.1121/10.0016631.

  5. V. Demartsev, A. S. Gersick, F. H. Jensen, M. Thomas, M. A. Roch, M. B., Manser, and A. Strandburg‐Peshkin. (2022). “Signalling in groups: New tools for the integration of animal communication and collective movement,” Methods in Ecology and Evolution, pp. 12, doi:10.1111/2041-210x.13939.

  6. M. Thomas, F. H. Jensen, B. Averly, V. Demartsev, M. B., Manser, T. Sainburg, M. A. Roch, and A. Strandburg-Peshkin, (2022). “A practical guide for generating unsupervised, spectrogram-based latent space representations of animal vocalizations,” Journal of Animal Ecology, 00, pp. 1-15. Available at doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13754.

  7. J. A. Hildebrand, K. E. Frasier, K. E., T. A. Helble, and M. A. Roch, (2022). “Performance metrics for marine mammal signal detection and classification,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 151(1), pp. 414-427, Available at doi:10.1121/10.0009270.

  8. M. A. Roch, P. Gerstoft, B. Kostek, Z.-H. Michalopoulou, (2021). “How machine learning contributes to solve acoustical problems,” Acoustics Today, 17(Winter), pp. 48-56. Available at: doi:10.1121/AT.2021.17.4.48.

  9. S. Madhusudhana, Y. Shiu, H. Klinck, E. Fleishman, X. Liu, E. M. Nosal, T. Helble, D. Cholewiak, D. Gillespie, A. Sirovic, and M. A. Roch, (2021). “Improve automatic detection of animal call sequences with temporal context,” J. Roy. Soc. Interface 18(180), pp. 20210297. Available at doi: 10.1098/rsif.2021.0297.

  10. M. A. Roch, S. Lindeneau, G. Singh Aurora, K. E. Frasier, J. A. Hildebrand, H. Glotin, and S. Baumann-Pickering, (2021). “Using context to train time-domain echolocation click detectors.” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 149, 3301-3310. Available at doi:10.1121/10.0004992.

  11. Y. Shiu, K. J. Palmer, M. A. Roch, E. Fleishman, X. Liu, E.-M. Nosal, T. Helble, D. Cholewiak, D. Gillespie, and H. Klinck, (2020). “Deep neural networks for automated detection of marine mammal species,” Scientific Reports 10(1). Available at: doi:10.1038/s41598-020-57549-y.

  12. M. J. Bianco, P. Gerstoft, J. Traer, E. Ozanich, E., M. A. Roch, S. Gannot, S., and C. A. Deledalle (2019). “Machine learning in acoustics: Theory and applications,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 146(5), pp. 3590-3628. Available at: doi:10.1121/1.5133944.

  13. K. E. Frasier, M. A. Roch, M. S. Soldevilla, S. M. Wiggins, L. P. Garrison, and J. A. Hildebrand. “Automated classification of dolphin echolocation click types from the Gulf of Mexico,” PLOS Comput. Biol., 23 pp., December, 2017. Available at doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005823.

  14. A. E. Simonis, M. A. Roch, B. Bailey, J. Barlow, R. E. S. Clemesha, S. Iacobellis, J. A. Hildebrand, J., and S. Baumann-Pickering,. “Lunar cycles affect common dolphin Delphinus delphis foraging in the Southern California Bight,” Marine Ecology Progress Series 577. 221-235, August, 2017. Available at doi:10.3354/meps12247.

  15. A. Van Cise, M. A. Roch, R. W. Baird, T. A. Mooney, and J. Barlow, “Acoustic differentiation of Shiho- and Naisa-type short-finned pilot whales in the Pacific Ocean,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 141(2), 737-748, February 2017. Available at doi:10.1121/1.4974858.

  16. K. E. Frasier, E. E. Henderson, H. R. Bassett, and M. A. Roch, “Automated identification and clustering of subunits within delphinid vocalizations,” Marine Mammal Science, 32(3), pp. 911-930, July 2016. Available at doi:10.1111/mms.12303.

  17. A. Kershenbaum, D. T. Blumstein, M. A. Roch, Ç. Akçay, G. Backus, M. Bee, K. Bohn, Y. Cao, G. Carter, C. Cäsar, M.Coen, S. L. DeRuiter, L. Doyle, S. Edelman, R. Ferrer-i-Cancho, T. M. Freeberg, E. C. Garland, M. Gustison, H. E. Harley, C. Huetz, M. Hughes, J. H. Bruno, A. Ilany, D. Z. Jin, M. Johnson, C. Ju, J. Karnowski, B. Lohr, M. B. Manser, B. McCowan, E. Mercardo III, P. M. Narins, A. Piel, M. Rice, R. Salmi, K. Sasahara, L. Sayigh, Y. Shiu, C. Taylor, E. E. Vallejo, S. Waller, and V. Zamora-Gutierrez.. “Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: A tutorial review and prospectus,” Biological Reviews, February 2016, Available at doi:10.1111/brv.12160.

  18. M. A. Roch, H. Batchelor, S. Baumann-Pickering, C. L. Berchok, D. Cholewiak, E. Fujioka, E. C. Garland, S. Herbert, J. A. Hildebrand, E. M. Oleson, S. Van Parijs, D. Risch, A. Širović, and M. S. Soldevilla, “Management of acoustic metadata for bioacoustics,” Ecological Informatics, 31, 122-136, January, 2016. Open access.

  19. S. Baumann-Pickering, A. E. Simonis, E. M. Oleson, R. W. Baird, M. A. Roch, and S. M. Wiggins, “False killer whale and short-finned pilot whale acoustic identification.” Endangered Species Research, 28, 97-108, 2015. Open access.

  20. S. Baumann-Pickering, M. A. Roch, S. M. Wiggins, H.-U. Schnitzler, and J. A. Hildebrand, “Acoustic behavior of melon-headed whales varies on a diel cycle.” Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 69, 1553-1563, September, 2015. Open access.

  21. A. Širović, A. Rice, E. Chou, J. A. Hildebrand, S. M. Wiggins, and M. A. Roch, “Seven years of blue and fin whale call abundance in Southern California,” Endangered Species Research, 28, 61-76, 2015. Open access.

  22. M. A. Roch, J. Stinner-Sloan, S. Baumann-Pickering, and S. M. Wiggins. “The Effects of Site and Equipment Variation on Species Identification of Delphinids from Their Echolocation Clicks,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 173(1), 22-29, January, 2015. Postprint available.

  23. Baumann-Pickering, S., Roch, M. A., Brownell Jr, R. L., Simonis, A. E., McDonald, M. A., Solsona-Berga, A., Oleson, E. M., Wiggins, S. M. and Hildebrand, J. A. “Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Beaked Whale Echolocation, Signals in the North Pacific”. PLoS One 9, 17, January, 2014. Available at doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0086072.g001.

  24. A. Kershenbaum and M. A. Roch, “An image processing based paradigm for the extraction of tonal sounds in cetacean communications,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 134(6), pp. 4435-4445, December, 2013.

  25. M. Gassmann, E. E. Henderson, S. M. Wiggins, M. A. Roch, and J. A. Hildebrand, “Offshore killer whale tracking using multiple hydrophone arrays,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 134(5), pp. 3513-3521, November, 2013.

  26. S. Baumann-Pickering, M. A. McDonald, A. E. Simonis, A. Solsona Berga, K. P. B. Merkens, E. M. Oleson, M. A. Roch, S. M. Wiggins, S. Rankin, T. M. Yack, and J. A. Hildebrand, “Species-specific beaked whale echolocation signals,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 134(3), pp. 2293-2301, 2013. Postprint available.

  27. T. Helble, G. R. Ierley, G. L. D’spain, M. A. Roch, J. A. Hildebrand, “A generalized power-law detection algorithm for humpback whale vocalizations,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 131(4), pp. 2682-2699, 2012. Postprint available.

  28. M. A. Roch, T.S. Brandes, B. Patel, Y. Barkley, S. Baumann-Pickering, M.S. Soldevilla, “Automated extraction of odontocete whistle contours,” J. Acous. Soc. Am., Vol. 130(4), pp. 2212-2223, 2011. Postprint available.

  29. M. A. Roch, H. Klinck, S. Baumann-Pickering, S. Baumann-Pickering, D. K..Mellinger, S. Qui, M. S. Soldevilla, and J. A. Hildebrand, “Classification of echolocation clicks of odontocetes from the Southern California Bight,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 129(1), pp.467-475, 2011. Postprint available.

  30. T. M. Yack, J. Barlow, M. A. Roch, H. Klinck, S. Martin, D. K. Mellinger, D. Gillespie, “Comparison of beaked whale detection algorithms,” Appl. Acous. Vol. 71(11), pp. 1043-1049, Nov. 2010.

  31. S. Baumann-Pickering, M. A. Roch, S. M. Wiggins, H.-U. Schnitzler, and J. A. Hildebrand, “Discriminating features of echolocation clicks of melon-headed whales (Peponocephala electra), bottlenose dolphins (Tursipos truncatus) and Gray’s spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris longirostris)”, Vol. 128(4), pp. 2112-2224, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 2010. Available at doi:10.1121/1.3479549.

  32. S. Baumann-Pickering, S. M. Wiggins, E. H. Roth, M. A. Roch, H.-U. Schnitzler, J. A. Hildebrand, “Echolocation signals of a beaked whale at Palmyra Atoll,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 127(6), pp. 3790-3799, July 2010. Availabe at doi:10.1121/1.3409478.

  33. M. S. Soldevilla, M. A. Roch, E. E. Henderson, G. S. Campbell, S. M. Wiggins, and J. A. Hildebrand, “Classification of Risso’s and Pacific white-sided dolphins using spectral properties of echolocation clicks,” in J. Acoust. Soc. Am. , Vol 124(1), pp. 609-624, July 2008.

  34. M. A. Roch, M. S. Soldevilla, R. Hoenigman, S. M. Wiggins, J. A. Hildebrand, “Comparison of machine learning techniques for the classification of echolocation clicks from three species of odontocetes,” Canadian Acoust. Vol. 36(1), pp. 41-47, 2008. Postprint available.

  35. M. A. Roch, R. R. Hurtig, T. Huang, J. Liu, and Sonia Arteaga, “Foreground auditory scene analysis for hearing aids,” in Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 28(11), pp. 1351-1359, Aug, 2007.

  36. M. A. Roch, M. S. Soldevilla, J. C. Burtenshaw, E. Henderson, and J. A. Hildebrand, “Gaussian mixture model classification of odontocetes in the Southern California Bight and the Gulf of California,” in J. Acoust. Soc. of Am., Vol. 121(3), pp. 1737-1748, March, 2007. Postprint available.

  37. M. Roch, “Gaussian-Selection Based Non-Optimal Search for Speaker Identification,” Speech Communication . Vol. 48(10), pp. 85-95, January 2006.

  38. M. A. Roch and R. R. Hurtig, “The integral decode: A smoothing technique for robust HMM-based speaker recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 10(5), pp. 315-324, July 2002.

Refereed Proceedings

  1. Li, P., Liu, X., Palmer, K. J., Fleishman, E., Gillespie, D., Nosal, E.-M., Shiu , Y., Klinck, H., Cholewiak, D., Helble, T., and Roch, M. A. (2020). “Learning Deep Models from Synthetic Data for Extracting Dolphin Whistle Contours,” in Intl. Joint Conf. Neural Net. (Glasgow, Scotland, July 19-24), pp. 10. DOI:  10.1109/IJCNN48605.2020.9206992, arXiv preprint.
  2. M. A. Roch, S. Baumann-Pickering, H. Batchelor, D. Hwang, A. Širović, J. A. Hildebrand, C. L. Berchok, D. Cholewiak, L. M. Munger, E. M. Oleson, S. V. Parijs, D. Risch, and M. S. Soldevilla, “Tethys: A workbench and database for passive acoustic metadata,” Proc. IEEE Oceans, San Diego, CA, 5 pp., October, 2013. Preprint available.
  3. N. Nichols, L. Atlas, A. Bowles, M. Roch, “Call and component evaluation for improved performance of recognition of killer whale individuals,” to appear in Proc. IEEE Oceans, Seattle, WA, Sept. 2010. (N. Nichols won 2nd place in the graduate student poster competition)
  4. S. K. Madhusudhana, M. A. Roch, E. M. Oleson, M. S. Soldevilla, J. A. Hildebrand, “Blue Whale B and D Call Classification Using a Frequency Domain Based Robust Contour Extractor,” Proc. IEEE Oceans, Bremen, Germany, 7 pp., May 2009. (S. Madhusudhana won 2nd place in the graduate student poster competition)
  5. S. K. Madhusudhana, E. M. Oleson, M. S. Soldevilla, M. A. Roch, and J. A. Hildebrand, “Frequency based algorithm for robust contour extraction for blue whale B and D calls,” in Proc. IEEE Oceans, Kobe, Japan, 8 pp., April 2008. (S. Madhusudhana won 2nd place in the graduate student poster competition)
  6. L. Girod and M. A. Roch, “An overview of the use of remote embedded sensors for audio acquisition and processing,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2006), San Diego, CA, December 2006. Postprint available.
  7. M. Roch, R. R. Hurtig, T. Huang, and J. Liu, “Audio Scene Analysis as a Control System for Hearing Aids,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2005), Irvine, CA, pp. 772-778, December 2005.
  8. M. Roch, R. R. Hurtig, J. Liu, and T. Huang, “Towards a Cohort-Selective Frequency-Compression Hearing Aid,” in Proceedings of The International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences, Las Vegas, NV, pp. 164-170, June 2004.
  9. M. Roch and Y. Cheng, “Speaker Segmentation Using the MAP-Adapted Bayesian Information Criterion,” in Proceedings of Odyssey04, The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, Toledo, Spain : ISCA, pp. 349-354, May 2004.
  10. M. A. Roch, “Gaussian selection based non-optimal search for speaker identification,” invited paper, in Proceedings of the Special Workshop in Maui, January 2004, CD-ROM.
  11. M. A. Roch, “A Gaussian-selection based preclassifier for speaker recognition,” in Proceedings of the Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics of The Acoustical Society of America and The Mexican Institute of Acoustics, December 2002, CD-ROM.

Book chapters and special issues

  1. Z. H. Michalopoulou, P. Gerstoft, B. Kostek, and M. A. Roch. “Introduction to the special issue on machine learning in acoustics,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 150(4), 3204-3210, October, 2021. DOI:10.1121/10.0006783.
  2. D. K. Mellinger, M. A. Roch, E.-M. Nosal, and H. Klinck. Signal Processing. In Listening in the Ocean, eds. W. W. L. Au and M. O. Lammers, pp. 359-409, New York: Springer, 2016.
  3. M. A. Roch, A Širović, and S. Baumann-Pickering, “Detection, classification, and localization of cetaceans by groups at The Scripps Institution of Oceanography and San Diego State University (2003-2013)”. In Detection, Classification, Localization of Marine Mammals using passive acoustics, eds. O. Adam and F. Samaran), pp. 27-52. Paris: Dirac NGO, 2013. Preprint available.

Other scholarly work

  1. S. Baumann-Pickering, L. K. Baldwin, A. E. Simonis, M. A. Roch, M. L. Melcon, J. A. Hildebrand, E. M. Oleson, R. W. Baird, G. S. Schorr, D. L. Webster, D. J. McSweeny, “Characterization of Marine Mammal Recordings from the Hawaii Range Complex,” NPS-OC-10-004CR, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 2010.  Accessible via:  http://www.nps.edu/Research/TechReports.html
  2. J. A. Hildebrand, H. Bassett, S. Baumann-Pickering, G. Campbell, A. Cummins, S. Kerosky, M. Melcon, K. Merkens, L. Munger, M. A. Roch, L. Roche, A. Simonis and S. Wiggins, “High Frequency Acoustic Recording Package Data Summary Report,” March 14, 2009 – March 26, 2010 SOCAL Site N. Marine Physical Laboratory. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, LA Jolla, CA, 2010.
  3. J. A. Hildebrand, H. Bassett, S. Baumann-Pickering, G. Campbell, A. Cummins, S. Kerosky, M. Melcon, K. Merkens, L. Munger, M. A. Roch, L. Roche, A. Simonis and S. Wiggins (2010b) High Frequency Acoustic Recording Package Data Summary Report March 11, 2009 – March 25, 2010 SOCAL Site M. Marine Physical Laboratory. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, LA Jolla, CA, 2010.
  4. M. A. Roch, A. E. Rosenberg, and F. K. Soong, “The use of pitch contour information to improve text-dependent speaker verification performance,” Tech. Mem. BL011526-951228-18TM, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, December 1995