May 3, 2022Self-Supervised Ethogram DiscoveryWe are excited to share news about a new research project underway at the Earth Species Project, spearheaded by Earth Species Project Senior AI Researcher Benjamin Hoffman. Project Summary As animal-attached tags (‘biologgers’) have gotten smaller and lighter, there has been an explosion of data collected with microphones, accelerometers, and other sensors…Machine Learning10 min readMachine Learning10 min read
Feb 24, 2022Towards Solving the Cocktail Party Problem for AnimalsAt a crowded party or in a noisy restaurant, most of us do something remarkable. Out of all the sounds and voices around us, we can attribute them to distinct sources, and even attend to one specific speaker in a group and ignore the rest. In 1953, British scientist Colin…Machine Learning6 min readMachine Learning6 min read
