Progress history #ai4orcas

Recent progress (2019-2020)

2021

• Sep: J pod returns after 5 month hiatus; OrcaHello team plans for annual Microsoft hackathon; Alex Barnhill of ORCA-SPOT team joins Orcasound Slack.
• Aug: L54s heard twice on Orcasound Lab hydrophones; GSoC student projects completed, including embedding visualizations for OrcaAL, and Github action workflow for increased data flow and algorithm deployment.
• July: K pod visits (but isn't heard on Orcasound hydrophones); HALLO project develops v0.3 of KW call model, onboards Sadman Sakib
• June: Orcasound GSoC students work on embeddings, Github actions + OOI data, notifications, and v3 of Orcasound web app
• May: WGU hackathon explores human and machine detection databases (API for CosmoDB | SQL queries with Postgres DB)
• Apr: 1-day Microsoft hackathon generates PRs to ai4orcas-livesystem to improve OrcaHello live inference system; HALLO project developing approaches to ecotype and pod classification
• Mar: After 6 months of beta-testing, Microsoft real-time inference system reaches 1300 detections (200 true positives), implements moderator UI improvements; HALLO project generates new labeled Canadian data; Akoustos project spins up.
• Feb: Earth Species project adds Orcasound data to their library
• Jan: Val/Scott presents Jetson Nano "edge computing" talk at Meridian Winter Webinar; 3 project pages published at ai4orcas.net

2020

• Dec: 2020 GSoC team presents at ASA; GSoC students present Orca Active Learning talk at Merdian "Winter Webinar" & Acoustical Society of America virtual meeting; Microsoft lead devs present Real-time "ML in the Wild" at Meridian "Winter Webinar"
• Nov: 2020 GSoC team hack re OrcaAL & AK KWs; live inference running beta-test on all 3 nodes.
• Oct: Val develops and tests edge detector on Jetson nano at Orcasound Lab; Microsoft team labels round 10 of Orcasound data, retrains models.
• Sep: Microsoft's AI for Orcas team deploys real-time inference system on Orcasound Lab hydrophone for testing of performance and human moderation
• Aug: Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students Kunal and Diego develop an active learning tool (OrcaAL app | OrcaAL research)
• Jul: Microsoft annual hackathon (7/27-29) goal: real-time inference prototype! DemocracyLab Create-a-thon (7/18, focus on design/dev of human learning UI)
• Jun: AI4orcas project page launched, including Google Summer of Code project on active learning
• May: DemocracyLab Hack for Your Mother (5/9, Orcasound 2.0 web app launch)
• Apr: Orcasound earns $15k Azure credits with University of Washington for the "Detect2Protect" proposal to the Leonardo DiCaprio Innovation Grant via Microsoft's AI for Earth program
• Mar: DemocracyLab Hacky-St.-Patrick's-Day (3/14, Orcasound); Microsoft remote-only hackathon (3/28, Pod.Cast + OrcaHello)
• Feb: Microsoft Hackathon (2/29, Pod.Cast + OrcaHello); Orcasound becomes host organization for Google Summer of Code
• Jan: Hackathons at Democracy Lab (1/11, Orcasound) and Microsoft (1/25, Pod.Cast + OrcaHello)

2019

• Nov: Hackathons at Microsoft (11/7), UW (11/16), and DemocracyLab (11/23); Orcasound presents at Canadian deep learning and bioacoustic metadata workshops (11/19-22)
• Oct: Organize train/test data with Orcasound members, data, and Microsoft labeling tool (Pod.Cast)
• Sep: Submit UW-led ML proposal to Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation + Microsoft "Innovation Grant"
• Aug: Launch beta-testing of Orcasound UI with "I hear something" button for human listeners
• Jul: Microsoft annual hackathon (7/27-29): built "Podcast" annotation tool (Akash, Prakruti, & Nithya)