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News, updates, and stories from the Orcasound community.
Acoustic inference as J pod departs Puget Sound & heads to Canada
After their first foray of the Southern Resident Killer Whales into Puget Sound this fall over the last couple days,… Read more Acoustic inference as J pod departs Puget Sound & heads to Canada
Orcas head north & south for Salish Sea salmon
Today (9/27/2020) at least two pods of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW) came into the Salish Sea from… Read more Orcas head north & south for Salish Sea salmon
Orcasound wins 2020 Environmental Excellence award from the Port of Seattle
Today during a remote-only meeting of the Port Commissioners, the Port of Seattle’s 2020 Marine Environmental Excellence awards were announced.… Read more Orcasound wins 2020 Environmental Excellence award from the Port of Seattle
911: superpod northbound at Orcasound Lab on a smokey night
After not being present in the Salish Sea throughout August, the Southern Resident Killer Whales have visited Haro Strait this… Read more 911: superpod northbound at Orcasound Lab on a smokey night
Detection of Orca calls using Active Learning: GSoC progress report #3
Here are some jargons that are written in this blog that you might not be familiar with: Uncertainty threshold: It… Read more Detection of Orca calls using Active Learning: GSoC progress report #3
My Journey as a Google Summer of Code participant with Orcasound
The coding period for Google Summer of Code 2020 is over. It has been three months of a lot of… Read more My Journey as a Google Summer of Code participant with Orcasound
Two months listening and learning about orca sounds
Hey again! I’m Diego and I’m a Google Summer of Code participant with Orcasound. We (Kunal, the mentors and I)… Read more Two months listening and learning about orca sounds
Detection of Orca calls using Active Learning: GSoC progress report #2
In this section, we are going to see the steps taken for performing Active learning and how the performance of… Read more Detection of Orca calls using Active Learning: GSoC progress report #2
Orcasound’s Orca Sound Training Interface
On Saturday, July 18, 2020, Orcasound participated in “Summer Create-a-thon”, a hackathon run by DemocracyLab. Our goal was to design… Read more Orcasound’s Orca Sound Training Interface