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SUMMARY:Probabilistic approaches to understanding bird conversations - Dan
  Stowell (Queen Mary University of London)
DTSTART:20150302T110000Z
DTEND:20150302T120000Z
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CONTACT:Dr R.E. Turner
DESCRIPTION:Bird sound recordings contain a wealth of information - about 
 species\, individuals\, and their interactions. Multiple sound sources are
  typically active at a time\, and each one is governed by incompletely und
 erstood processes with rich temporal structure. Applying machine learning 
 to such data has applications in conservation\, animal behaviour research\
 , and comparative linguistics.\n\nI will describe some inference problems 
 pertinent to bird sounds\, from classification to more structured analysis
 . I will then describe recent work modelling bird "conversations" as colle
 ctions of Markov renewal processes\, as a basis for working towards genera
 l-purpose machine listening for birds.
LOCATION:Engineering Department\, CBL Room BE-438
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