24 September 2021 – Sustainable Ocean Conference – Dalhousie University
- Machine Learning in Marine Bioacoustics – Bruno Padovese
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24 August 2021 – Advances in Marine Data Science Session – SFU’s Big Data Hub
- The Ketos Package – Fabio Frazao
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- Acoustic Detection and Classification of Killer Whales with Deep Neural Networks – Sadman Sakib
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- Data Augmentation: Improving your Datasets – Bruno Padovese
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6 April 2021 – Deep Dive into the Artificial Intelligence efforts at DFO
- DFO Data Strategy: Enabling Innovation and Experimentation – D. Collister (DFO)
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- Managing DFO Data Assets – George Esper (DFO)
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- Detecting Vessels’ Behavior using Artificial Intelligence – Riham Elhabyan, Lee Croft, and Steven Zhang (DFO)
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- Machine Learning and North Atlantic Right Whale Classification – Jim Theriault (Ocean Environmental Consulting)
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- Ketos @DFO – Yonglin Ren (DFO)
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- Machine Learning and Human Acoustic Perception – Oliver Kirsebom (MERIDIAN) and Nicole Chisholm (DFO)
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- Clustering and detecting anomalies in Ocean Data – Riham Elhabyan and Steven Zhang (DFO)
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- Planned next steps – David Collister
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- Artificial Intelligence meets Ocean Science (AIOS) – Oliver Kirsebom and Stan Matwin (MERIDIAN)
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27 January 2021 – MERIDIAN Winter Webinar Series, No. 7, Acoustic telemetry detection range modeling
- Acoustic Telemetry – Jon Pye, OTN
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- Detection range modeling – an open source tool for range test analysis – Steven Bergner & Jillian Anderson, SFU
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20 January 2021 – MERIDIAN Winter Webinar Series, No. 6, Management of underwater acoustic data
- Designing data discovery @ MERIDIAN – Kim Mortimer, MERIDIAN
View Presentation PPTX - From Theory to Practice: Translating Schemas into Databases and Interfaces – Sarah Vela, MERIDIAN
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13 January 2021 – MERIDIAN Winter Webinar Series, No. 5, Edge computing for hydrophones
- Research and conservation of whales needs near real-time acoustic monitoring – a DFO Science perspective – Hilary Moors-Murphy & Harald Yurk, DFO
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- Hydrophone Systems on autonomous platforms – Adam Comeau, CEOTR
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- Near real-time acoustic monitoring from gliders: Practical challenges and system development – Katie Kowarski, JASCO
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- Embedded deep learning – Fabio Frazao, MERIDIAN
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- Computing on the Edge of the sea: a hydrophone, a Jetson-Nano and multiple ResNets – Val Veirs, Beam Reach
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- Defending Intelligently: National Defence’s use cases for AI and ML in acoustics – Dugald Thomson & Jeff MacDonnell, DND
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- Machine Learning and Passive Acoustic Monitoring; Application insights – Jason Wood & Kaitlin Palmer, SMRU
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18 December 2020 – DFO Seminar
- HALLO: Humans and ALgorithms Listening for Orcas – Oliver Kirsebom
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15 December 2020 – MERIDIAN Winter Webinar Series, No. 4, Acoustic detection and classification in the modern era of big data, deep learning, and open science principles
- Orcasound’s open approach to orca detection / OrcaAL = Orca Active Learning – Scott and Val Veirs / Kunal Mehta
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- The Ketos package – Oliver Kirsebom
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- ML “in the wild”: Insights from deploying OrcaHello – an open source, AI-assisted 24×7 hydrophone monitoring & SRKW alert system in Puget Sound – Akash Mahajan, Prakruti Gogia, & Aayush Agrawal
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- Data Augmentation: Improving your Datasets – Bruno Padovese
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- Open science principles for underwater acoustic detectors – Fabio Frazao
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2 December 2020 – MERIDIAN Winter Webinar Series, No. 3, Visualizations for preference inspection in group decision making
- Visualizations for preference inspection in group decision making – Jordon Johnson
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25 November 2020 – MERIDIAN Winter Webinar Series, No. 2, What Do We Know About Fish Sounds?
- FishSounds: a Website to Compile and Disseminate Research on Fish Sound Production, Part I – Audrey Looby
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- FishSounds: a Website to Compile and Disseminate Research on Fish Sound Production, Part II – Amalis Riera
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18 November 2020 – MERIDIAN Winter Webinar Series, No. 1, Underwater Soundscapes
- The Ocean Soundscapes Atlas, Introduction and Maps – Pierre Mercure-Boissonnault & Edouard Philippe
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- The Ocean Soundscapes Atlas, Web Application – Patrice Lebel
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- Vessel tracking data – Matthew Smith
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- The Kadlu Software Package – Oliver Kirsebom
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11 November 2020 – Virtual Conference on Acoustics in the Arctic Ocean
- Detecting and Classifying Underwater Sounds with Ketos – Oliver Kirsebom
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28 April 2020 – Portage Webinar
- An Introduction to MERIDIAN and the MERIDIAN Discovery Portal – Casey Hilliard, Sarah Vela, Kim Mortimer
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21-22 November 2019 – Detection and Classification in Marine Bioacoustics with Deep Learning, Victoria BC, Canada
- Welcome and Workshop Overview – Oliver Kirsebom
View Presentation PDF - Deep Learning for underwater acoustics – Fabio Frazao
View Presentation PDF - Learning clicks from raw audio by Deep CNN: Univ. Toulon’s solution of DCLDE 2018 challenge – Hervé Glotin
- Detecting calls of North Atlantic right whales using deep CNNs – Shyam Madhusudhana
View Presentation PDF - Detecting endangered baleen whales within acoustic recordings using R-CNNs – Mark Thomas
View Presentation - A brief history of the use of machine learning in bioacoustics – Marie Roch
View Presentation PDF - The Ketos Deep Learning Python Package – Oliver Kirsebom
View Presentation PDF - Detecting North Atlantic Right Whales in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence: Notes on Generalization – Fabio Frazao
View Presentation PDF - Methods to Overcome Data Scarcity – Bruno Padovese
View Presentation PDF - Detection & classification of SRKW calls – through human & machine learning, in real-time – Val Veirs and Scott Veirs
View Presentation - OK Google: Where are the whales? – Ann Allen & Lauren Harrell
2019-07-07 – 2019-07-12 Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life – The Hague, The Netherlands
- An Atlas of Canada’s Changing Ocean Soundscape – Oliver Kirsebom
View Presentation PDF - Acoustic Detection and Classification Using Deep Neural Networks – Fabio Frazao
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View Presentation PDF - Sablefish make unusual sounds composed of variable broadband ticks and frequency modulation – Amalis Riera
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2019-05-06 – 2019-05-10 OceanPredict ’19 – Halifax, Nova Scotia
- An Atlas of the Changing Soundscape in Canadian Oceans – Oliver Kirsebom
View Presentation PDF - Metadata and data management principles for underwater acoustic data – Kim Mortimer
View Poster PDF - Discovering Canadian underwater acoustics datasets – Ryan Gosse
View Poster PDF - Where did that come from? – Johna Latouf
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2019-04-29 Seminar at Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) – Victoria, BC
- Marine Environmental Research Infrastructure for Data Integration and Application Network – Oliver Kirsebom
View PDF - Applications of Deep Learning to Sound Detection and Classification in Underwater Acoustics – Fabio Frazao
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2018-09-05 Workshop on analysis of acoustic landscapes – University of São Paulo
- Deep learning applied to underwater acoustic data – Oliver Kirsebom
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2018-08-16 – 2018-08-17 MEOPAR – MERIDIAN Workshop Presentations – Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Keynote – Stan Matwin
View PDF - Ocean Data Management Updates and Connection Points – Mike Smit
View PDF - Soundscape Atlas – Yvan Simard
View PDF #1 View PDF #2 - Roadmap Reflection – Stan Matwin
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