CSE Seminar – Graham Taylor – Machine Learning for Biodiversity
Feb 15, 2023
3:30PM to 5:00PM
Date/Time
Date(s) - 15/02/2023
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Speaker: Graham Taylor, University of Guelph
Title: Machine Learning for Biodiversity
Abstract:
Up to 1M species face extinction in the next several decades, with biodiversity loss a major factor. In this talk, I will describe my team’s efforts to leverage advances in deep learning to monitor and improve biodiversity health. Our work is bolstered by the $24M University of Guelph-led BIOSCAN project, a global interdisciplinary effort to build a biodiversity observation system; and LIFEPLAN, a global biodiversity monitoring effort that collects data, including images, audio and DNA samples, from around 100 sites worldwide. Manual analysis of the data collected in these massive international biodiversity efforts are resource prohibitive and their success will depend on automating the analysis of images, sets, sequences, and graphs.
Location: T13-127 & Zoom
Zoom Meeting Info:
Meeting ID: 993 2631 5722
Passcode: 913408
https://mcmaster.zoom.us/j/99326315722?pwd=YVpYVW8yUHpyaU5RTmdjNTI4WGlPUT09