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Thousands of bird sounds visualized using Google machine learning
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- anotheryou 9y agomore like sorting bird sounds, not visualizing... The tiny images are just spectograms/fft as far as I can tell. edit: it's very fun though to click+drag, haha
- jboggan 9y agoI really want to map these to a MIDI controller
- fairpx 9y agoIt's good to see Google in the last couple of weeks launching a bunch of [1]projects that are more in line with their mission of 'organising the world's information'. [1] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/google-digitizes-3000-years-fashion-history-180963633/?no-ist http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/google-digitizes-30...
- mortehu 9y agoIf you haven't already, try zooming all the way out and drawing things using the grid as a canvas.
- mcbits 9y agoNeat, sounds just like my back yard in the morning!
- daxfohl 9y agoFrom the video, it appears this is an AI-plotted hugely multidimensional space t-sne'd onto two dimensions. Would be interesting to do some kind of ML on how best to present hugely multidimensional spaces onto two _interactive_ dimensions. Where one AI is deciding how things are projected and how it can be manipulated, and another AI is limited to some virtual "mouse, keyboard, 2D screen" to make inferences. Such that it's optimized for faster, more correct inferences.
- anotheryou 9y agothis has to end up in clustering, some color coding for the dimensions would have been nice.
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- bonoetmalo 9y agoIs there a better way to pan than click-dragging 100 simultaneous bird sounds?
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- coldcode 9y agoWonder what it would do with a mockingbird?
- simplehuman 9y agoI see "Oops, sorry for the tech trouble. For the best experience, view in " for chrome on wayland...
- jlg23 9y agoUnfortunately they only hint at the envisioned application in the video and don't provide any further links, but the idea is amazing: Use sounds to monitor bio-diversity. Imagine we'd not need cameras and lots of luck to "catch" proof of an animals existence but a grid of interconnected omnidirectional microphones. We'd get real time tracking of individual animals in 3D and could have smartphones literally point the way to yet uncatalogued or even undiscovered species.
- edgyswingset 9y agoSomewhat related, but there was a very good talk at MLConf 2017 about using sound to catch illegal logging in the Amazon. Similar premise: collect the sound, analyze the patterns, and classify.
- zintinio5 9y agoI worked on this as part of a project with US Fish and Wildlife in 2015 for bats! We were monitoring local populations to track the spread of White Nose syndrome. It wasn't in 3D, but we linked the audio data / classifications with lat/long points and plotted population estimates on maps.
- pishpash 9y agoNext: add animal languages to Google Translate?
- KasianFranks 9y agoFeature request: Play All
- mirimir 9y agoIt doesn't work in Firefox. How rude.
- natch 9y agoWorked in Firefox for me. However, it was a bit slow to load.
- mirimir 9y agoI got: > Oops, sorry for the tech trouble. For the best experience, view in Chrome browser. But then, I block some stuff: ads, WebGL, WebRTC, and tracking.
- raverbashing 9y agoWorks in FF for me, does not work in Chrome
- voidmain 9y agoThis is my cats' favorite machine learning application so far!
- glup 9y agoConfusing my cat.
- sharp11 9y agoAs a birder, this looks like a failed experiment to me. Or I don't understand what their goal was. The groupings make little sense in terms of what these species sound like. I'm guessing that's an artifact of the way they sampled the sounds, losing macro properties. Kind of like grouping the words 'paramour', 'enmity' and 'hamster' together bc they all contain /m/ sound.
- glup 9y agoAnother birder here, totally agreed. The audio samples are all really short and downsampled.
- jaimex2 9y agoWhat? No Kookaburra? It has the most unique call of them all.
- bkasterm 9y agoThere are some instances of the same bird in multiple locations (great horned owl). Presumably multiple recordings of the same bird. My initial reaction to them not being neighboring is to wonder about the quality of the result. Maybe better feature engineering needed to make this biologically relevant. Any other interpretations?
- MurrayHill1980 9y agoWhat task is made easier by this visualization?
- tren 9y agoSomeone should make a Shazam/Soundhound app for bird calls, I'd definitely buy it if it could narrow it down to a subset of possibilities.
- newbear 9y agoBeen thinking of this but the library of birds sounds is private to Cornell if I'm not mistaken. The app , at least, should free and open source.
- bravura 9y agoI poked around and also looked at a similar experiment, the Infinite Drum Machine: https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/drum-machine https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/drum-machine Does anyone know what they are doing t-SNE on? i.e. are they just doing t-SNE on the raw waveforms? Or the MFCC spectrogram? Or what?
- bane 9y agoIt's interesting, at the very local level I think most humans wouldn't think two adjacent bird sounds are all that similar. But if you drag along a long line and listen to a series of different birds you can "hear" a definite organized progression that seems to be organizing rhythm and major tones into groups.
- Theodores 9y agoOn touch screen it is very BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a nice toy to get some sounds from, to suit a play on Radio 4, that sort of thing. So you could make lots of 'instruments' by applying AI to organising sounds into some space that can be used as per this example and a touchscreen. It my make ornithologists cringe but I think the merit in this work could be elsewhere, as a creative musical instrument of sorts.
- glup 9y agoIt would be interesting to see how similarity in bird call behavior tracks (or doesn't) the phylogenetic relationship between species. My hypothesis would be that bird calls are influenced by other birds in the same ecosystem (imitation or differentiation, and reflecting a high degree of cultural learning) rather than the null hypothesis of genetic transmission.
- zo1 9y agoIf you left-click and drag around on this (with short pauses), you can almost hear something that sounds very close to R2-D2.
- thinkMOAR 9y agoInteresting, spammed a few bird lovers i know with it. Though they almost all replied the recordings are not good enough. Though personally (jk) i was slightly disappointed when i zoomed out i didn't see a big bird (or other bird) likeness.