Project CETI Next Steps: Industrial-Scale Whale Bioacoustic Data Collection and Analysis

Michael Bronstein, Imperial College London
Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species

With advances in machine learning, we now stand a chance to decode communication in non-human animal and plant life, which has fascinated humans for millennia. Cutting-edge technology can be used to benefit not only humankind, but other species on our planet, to better understand and protect the life around us. To make this possible, one needs to bring together and build on the latest discoveries of experts in disparate fields, including machine learning, signal processing, data science, linguistics, and acoustics. The goal of the workshop is to explore the challenges and current state-of-the-art in the study of non-human species communication as well as disciplines and technologies that are likely to provide solutions to these challenges.

[LeonBewersdorff]

It's really fascinating research. I look forward to following it in the coming years.

[robhenry]

Great that both ICI and IPI substructure are being probed, such that there are only two things that give me cause to doubt. Interesting that Hal Whitehead is not on this team, as his assistance would be a better skill set match than any other I can think of. Also noteworthy is that anecdote heavily favours male sperm whales as those willing to spontaneously approach humans and click toward them for no apparent cause. Here, the CETI team are relying that females will wont to make that effort, which seems to require far greater effort before reciprocation from what I've heard.