Queensland researchers train artificial intelligence to trawl recordings and help confirm presence of elusive eastern bristlebird
Researchers have paired artificial intelligence with audio recordings to track down the endangered eastern bristlebird which had not been seen nor heard in south-east Queensland since the black summer bushfires devastated its habitat.Researchers have paired artificial intelligence with audio recordings to track down the endangered eastern bristlebird which had not been seen nor heard in south-east Queensland since the black summer bushfires devastated its habitat.
“But you’ve gotta be at the right place at the right time and the bird’s got to want to respond,” says Queensland University of Technology’s Susan Fuller. The results were heartening, confirming the existence of the elusive bird feared lost to south-east Queensland. “We’ve always come back to the same stumbling block of someone having to sit down and go through the recordings minute by minute, manually identifying the calls,” the associate professor at QUT’s Centre for the Environment says.
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