![]() ![]() The other grant, also for close to $350,000 per year, enables BRP researchers to collaborate with engineers at the Science Applications International Corp. ![]() The system will also be tested under a variety of field conditions. Once developed, the new system will be the first to integrate deep learning algorithms into passive acoustic monitoring and provide a recording device for locating species, Dugan added. After the devices record underwater animal sounds, "the deep learning algorithms monitor the sound stream and use multiple layers of computer processing to make decisions as to whether the sound originates from an animal or from other sources," said Dugan. "These algorithms will be used to identify vocalizations from marine mammals, like whales, but the biggest challenge is to ensure that the computer system will provide us a high degree of confidence to detect, classify and locate marine mammals," said Peter Dugan, BRP director of applied science and engineering and the project's co-PI. Teaming up with Yann LeCun, the Silver Professor of Computer Science and Neural Science at New York University, the team will use "deep learning algorithms" to create software for detecting and classifying marine mammal sounds. One grant, for $350,000 per year, will support the research and development of smart recording devices and analysis systems that can detect marine mammals, classify the type of animal and, with multiple microphones in the water, estimate the animals' precise locations. "The overall reason for doing this is to try to reduce the effects that man-made noises have on marine life," said Harold Cheyne, BRP's technology director. ![]() Christopher Clark, BRP's director, is the principal investigator (PI) on both projects.Ĭlark and BRP promote marine mammal conservation through research to document ocean noise and its repercussions while also tracking such endangered species as the North Atlantic right whale. The work in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP) is made possible by two three-year grants totaling more than $2 million from the Office of Naval Research administered through the National Oceanographic Partnership Program. Cornell researchers are developing intelligent underwater recorders that distinguish marine mammal sounds from background noise and are creating a mobile recording device that uses wave motion to propel itself. ![]()
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