Founded in 2015 with a plan to conduct the first sound survey of the world's oceans, the IQOE uses underwater microphones known as hydrophones.
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The biggest novelty, however, is in the way of analyzing the sounds obtained: instead of spending months deciphering them using human ears – arguing about which sound was a shrimp clicking and which was a fish grunting – they connected the sounds to an algorithm that correctly identified the species within minutes.
Among the 21 recorded species, the program correctly identified the sounds of 4 of them, with 89,4% accuracy in these cases: drum, snoring fish, snapping shrimp and planktonophage. 👂Click on the name of each species to hear its sounds recorded at the bottom of the sea, made available by IQOE.
🔊 Listen to more sounds captured from other species in the sound library (I.e.
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