Researchers from DFKI Niedersachsen, together with doctoral candidates from the Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) chair at the University of Oldenburg, are in the final of XPRIZE Rainforest, a global competition that promotes new technologies for researching, assessing and conserving biodiversity in tropical rainforests. In Team Brazil, they are developing an AI system that filters out the acoustic signals that ecologists need to determine species diversity from a large number of audio files from the Brazilian rainforest. The team has exactly 48 hours to use and analyse the system in the final. It will take place in real time between 17 and 22 July 2024.
"Many resources from my endowed professorship AAI and DFKI's IML research department have been channelled into this project. This has already paid off. It is already a great success for the team to be among the first six finalists, with more than three hundred teams taking part at the start of the competition and fifteen in the semi-finals. Now it's time to keep our fingers crossed once again for the final." Prof Dr Daniel Sonntag
DFKI press release https://www.dfki.de/web/news/xprize-rainforest-2024
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