Dr. Dolittle Research Experience for Undergraduates

REU Students

Undergradute REU participants on the Dr. Dolittle Project have included Andy MacDonald, Jason Dudley, Josh Matson, Nick Maggio, Ronald Dugong, Michael Sagan, Dylan Conley, Dexter Delfrate, and Corey Bost.

REU Project 2004

In 2004, REU student Andy MacDonald created the TREE OF LIFE project in an effort to organize information about sound production and reception mechanisms of a wide range of species.


Tree of Life

REU Team 2009

The Reseach Experience for Undergraduate students (REU) team of 2009 included undergraduates Dylan Conley, Dexter Delfrate, and Corey Bost. The team spent 12 weeks developing software to be used in conjunction with the Hidden Markov Toolkit (HTK) to help classify animal sounds.

Recognition Toolkit for MATLAB

The REU team built a program to be used within MATLAB to help scientists, reasearchers, etc. with sound recognition. The program has a graphical user interface to help the user with all the steps involved.

The system has the ability to set up all of the user's sound files into categories so the sound files do not have to be arranged in a specific fashion. The program will also convert the *.wma sound files into *.mfc so the HTK tools can build the definition files.

In addition, the program can also take a file the user doesn't recognize, and "guess", based on the definitions created from older data.

Download Toolkit(exe 1.97Mb)
Screenshots (link)

XBAT Filters

The XBAT filters are an addon for the XBAT project. The filters are algorithms that graduate researchers have been developing. The filters include Ephraim Mahlahl, Spectral Subtraction, Perceptual Wavelet Decomposition, and others.

Download Filters(zip 230Kb)