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View article: Part of 'AI to protect NZ birds': Bird classification open source contributers
Part of 'AI to protect NZ birds': Bird classification open source contributers Open
The Cacophony Project has been bringing digital technology to the fight for New Zealand native birds. They are developing a set of technologies that will be deployed throughout New Zealand.
\nTheir technology will:
\n- Lure invasive predat…
View article: Telepresence: Time to take a close look.
Telepresence: Time to take a close look. Open
Telepresence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepresence) offers the possibility of providing a more interactive remote connection between people than the current go-to of Zoom, Teams or similar video conference technology. Telepresence en…
View article: Bring the bird music back across New Zealand part of Smart Hamilton Smart Space
Bring the bird music back across New Zealand part of Smart Hamilton Smart Space Open
Every day, all around New Zealand, the dawn chorus tells us that our birdlife is one of our greatest treasures. Yet, New Zealand’s native birds are under threat from introduced predators such as possums, rats and stoats. How can modern inf…
View article: Analysis of morepork vocalizations recorded using a permanently located mobile phone
Analysis of morepork vocalizations recorded using a permanently located mobile phone Open
The purpose of this work included the annotation of audio recordings of bird vocalizations to be used to train a machine learning algorithm to automatically detect bird calls. In addition, this work was intended to demonstrate the ability …
View article: The Cacophony Project: Moore’s Law for New Zealand’s Birds
The Cacophony Project: Moore’s Law for New Zealand’s Birds Open
The Cacophonator name refers to our rapidly evolving embedded platform. Equipped with a thermal camera, speakers and sensors it is deployed into New Zealand's native bush to automatically lure, identify and eliminate invasive predators. Th…
View article: Listening to the birds in the Waikato
Listening to the birds in the Waikato Open
The Cacophony Project aims to greatly improve the ability to eliminate pest predators through out New Zealand and monitor the effects on bird life that this brings. My involvement with the project through my research, is to help assess the…
View article: The Cacophony Project on Maungatautari
The Cacophony Project on Maungatautari Open
The Cacophony Project has arrived at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari and has been making regular audio recordings at one of the high points in the sanctuary since October 2018. The project aims to greatly improve the ability to eliminate …
View article: Cacophonometer setup instructions
Cacophonometer setup instructions Open
1. Introduction
\n**** The current version (1.2) of the software can ‘hang’ for about 90 seconds when it starts up (it is testing if it can turn flight mode on/off). Please just give it time to do its thing. – working on a fix *****
\nThe …
View article: The Cacophony Project
The Cacophony Project Open
How will we know if any pest eradication interventions actually increase the amount of bird life?
\nThe Cacophony project aims to return New Zealand's bird life to its former glory, by using technology to help eradicate the pests responsi…
View article: Multivariate extreme value modelling of sea conditions around the coast of England
Multivariate extreme value modelling of sea conditions around the coast of England Open
It is widely recognised that coastal flood events can arise from combinations of extreme waves and sea levels. For flood risk analysis and the design of coastal structures it is therefore necessary to assess the joint probability of the oc…
View article: An investigation and comparison of speech recognition software for determining if bird song recordings contain legible human voices
An investigation and comparison of speech recognition software for determining if bird song recordings contain legible human voices Open
The purpose of this work was to test the effectiveness of using readily available speech recognition API services to determine if recordings of bird song had inadvertently recorded human voices. A mobile phone was used to record a human sp…
View article: I Wish I Could Believe You: The Frustrating Unreliability of Some Assessment Research.
I Wish I Could Believe You: The Frustrating Unreliability of Some Assessment Research. Open
Many practitioner researchers strive to understand which assessment practices have the best impact on learning, but in authentic educational settings, it can be difficult to determine whether one intervention, for example the introduction …
View article: Off-the-shelf Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Devices Utilised in a Low Activity Detection Service
Off-the-shelf Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Devices Utilised in a Low Activity Detection Service Open
There is a growing awareness for the need to provide low cost solutions for the care of the elderly and in particular to allow them to keep living independent lives.In parallel to this, there have also been significant advances in a number…
View article: National scale multivariate extreme value modelling of waves, winds and sea levels
National scale multivariate extreme value modelling of waves, winds and sea levels Open
\nIt has long been recognised that extreme coastal flooding can arise from the joint occurrence of extreme waves, winds and sea levels. The standard simplified joint probability approach used in England and Wales can result in an underesti…
View article: Reducing uncertainty in small-catchment flood peak estimation
Reducing uncertainty in small-catchment flood peak estimation Open
Every year in the UK, many flood risk assessments are carried out on small catchments, typically draining areas of less than 25 km2. Standard hydrological practice in all UK catchments is to apply the methods presented in the Flood Estimat…
View article: Assisted Living: Domestic Power Monitoring utilising Home Automation Products and Cloud Storage
Assisted Living: Domestic Power Monitoring utilising Home Automation Products and Cloud Storage Open
This paper describes the development of a system for taking measurements of electrical power consumption in a domestic situation and using a web service to store the measurements in a cloud hosted database. This is part of a larger project…