Researchers repurposed an AI model designed for visual identification tasks to detect Bryde’s whale calls contained with seismic data collected in the South China Sea.
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CETI / SETI: The Phonology Of Sperm Whale Coda Vowels
Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) communicate using series of clicks known as codas. In previous research, sperm whale codas have been shown to resemble human vowels acoustically.
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Whale Song Has Structure Similar To Human Language
Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little evidence it has language-like structure. Human language, which is also […]
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Whale Speech: Approaching An Unknown Communication System By Latent Space Exploration And Causal Inference
This paper proposes a methodology for discovering meaningful properties in data by exploring the latent space of unsupervised deep generative models. We combine manipulation of individual latent variables to extreme […]