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Marine ecosystems are an example of complex systems for large parts of which we still have only rudimentary understanding of underlying processes. Thus, understanding of marine ecosystems is critical to help us mitigate and limit the impact of human activities on it, especially given the rapid climate change. Underwater acoustics are complex and, when combined with the oceanographic and biological data the complexity increases even further. The nature of marine animal sounds is also very diverse (both in length and frequency), indicating differences between species, individuals, and context. All these problem specific properties require specific artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to detect, analyze, understand, and hopefully predict underwater animal characteristics and effects of human activities on them. In this project, we work with spectrograms which are the images converted from underwater acoustic recordings.The project also has co-supervisors in the Department of Biology where we get input from the experts in marine biology.
