AI tool helps ecologists monitor rare birds through their songs
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AI tool helps ecologists monitor rare birds through their songs
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#3> generate lifelike bird sounds to enhance the samples of underrepresented species. These can then be used to train audio identification tools used in ecological monitoring
That's a pretty neat idea. "feature generation" but for rare birdsong spectrograms.
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#4I have a friend who uses generative AI to classify and count wild flower species in alpine meadows using drones that autonomously patrol the same areas in many locations every day indefinitely to evaluate how climate change is impacting biodiversity in those ecosystems.
That’s just awesome.
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#5Check out BirdNET [1] and BirdWeather as well. BirdNET is from Cornell University and there's a version of it for the Raspberry Pi [2]. BirdWeather [3] combines all the publicly available BirdNET instances into a nifty map view.
[1] https://birdnet.cornell.edu/
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#6Very nice tool!
So grab a spare Raspberry Pi, a GPS, a cheap USB sound card and a mic and get recording with this Pi based Acoustic Recording Unit
https://github.com/hcfman/sbts-aru
And while you are at it, install 3x or more and localize where the birds are.
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#8Check out BirdNET [1] and BirdWeather as well. BirdNET is from Cornell University and there's a version of it for the Raspberry Pi [2]. BirdWeather [3] combines all the publicly available BirdNET instances into a nifty map view. [1] https://birdnet.cornell.edu/ [2] https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi [3] https://www.birdweather.com/
Indeed! The model is publicly available here and can be fine-tuned on birds for your specific location: https://github.com/kahst/BirdNET-Analyzer
Re: AI tool helps ecologists monitor rare birds through their songs
#9Very nice tool! So grab a spare Raspberry Pi, a GPS, a cheap USB sound card and a mic and get recording with this Pi based Acoustic Recording Unit https://github.com/hcfman/sbts-aru And while you are at it, install 3x or more and localize where the birds are.
Put them on drones and fly them off into the forest to count owls - when it's nice and quiet in the dead of night.
Re: AI tool helps ecologists monitor rare birds through their songs
#10Very nice tool! So grab a spare Raspberry Pi, a GPS, a cheap USB sound card and a mic and get recording with this Pi based Acoustic Recording Unit https://github.com/hcfman/sbts-aru And while you are at it, install 3x or more and localize where the birds are.
Put them on drones and fly them off into the forest to count owls - when it's nice and quiet in the dead of night.
Drones are very loud you know ?