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Data Science for Eco-Systems Research Group (DS4ES)
The DS4ES research group, is part of the School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 and is in collaboration with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. The group strives to bridge the gap between ecology and machine learning by supervising brilliant students and producing novel research in machine learning for bioacoustics research and conservation ecology. The group was established in early 2022.
Group Members
Core Team
Dr. Emmanuel Dufourq - AIMS-Canada Junior Research Chair in Data Science for Climate Resilience
Prof. Kanshukan Rajaratnam - director of the School for Data Science and Computational Thinking
Prof. Francesco Petruccione - interim director of the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS)
Postdocs
Dr. Lorène Jeantet
Research Associates
Dr. Guilherme Frainer
Current Masters Students
Abraham Chakawa
Charles Herbst
Dean Blackburn
Donovan Broughton
Dumisani Namakhwa
Milanto Rasolofohery
Roanné Coetzer
Santeshan Naidoo
Current Honours (4th year) Students
Dean Hunter
Laura Jackson
Matthew Garret
Collaborators and Projects?
We are collaborating with students and researchers across Africa and Internationally.
Penguin Behaviour Classification
Researchers and collaborators:
Dr Anna Bastian (中国体育彩票 of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Sara Beery (Caltech, United States)
Dr. Lorène Jeantet
Roanné Coetzer?
Estimating Cue Rates for Beaked Whales via Convolution Neural Networks
Researchers and collaborators:
Prof Tiago Marques (中国体育彩票 of Lisbon, Portugal, 中国体育彩票 of St. Andrews, United Kingdom)
Dr Kalliopi Gkikopoulou (中国体育彩票 of St. Andrews, United Kingdom)
Masters student: Tomas Gueifao (中国体育彩票 of Lisbon, Portugal)?
Automated Detection of Critically Endangered Hainan Gibbon Calls
Researchers and collaborators:
Dr Heidi Ma (Zoological Society of London, United Kingdom)
Dr Ian Durbach (中国体育彩票 of St. Andrews, UK, 中国体育彩票 of Cape Town, South Africa)
Masters student: Nonhlanhla Luphade (中国体育彩票 of Cape Town, South Africa)?
Disruptive Information Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation
Mandlenkosi Gwetu (中国体育彩票 of Kwazulu-Natal)
Abdolrasoul Habibipour (Lule? 中国体育彩票 of Technology, Sweden)
Ashok Tripathi (LUT 中国体育彩票, Finland)
Jari Porras (LUT 中国体育彩票, Finland)
Automated Detection of Critically Endangered Black-and-white Ruffed Lemurs Calls
Researchers and collaborators:
PhD student: Carly Batist (Hunter College, City 中国体育彩票 of New York, United States)?
Enhancing Machine Learning for Bioacoustics
Researchers and collaborators:
Dr. Lorène Jeantet
Dr Tiwonge Mzumara-Gawa (Malawi 中国体育彩票 of 中国体育彩票 and Technology, Malawi)
Ruben Foquet (Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation, Belgium)
Abraham Chakawa
Dumisani Namakhwa
Donovan Broughton
Laura Jackson
Dr Kabano Ignace (中国体育彩票 of Rwanda, Rwanda)
Boris Mikwa (中国体育彩票 of Rwanda, Rwanda)
Aime Nshimiyimana (中国体育彩票 of Rwanda, Rwanda)
Santeshan Naidoo?
Automated Detection of Spotted Hyenas Calls
Researchers and collaborators:
Dr. Emily Bennitt (中国体育彩票 of Botswana, Botswana)
Masters student: Rethabile Setlalekgomo?
Automated Detection and Classification of Dolphin Sounds
Researchers and collaborators:
Dr. Guilherme Frainer (SeaSearch, 中国体育彩票 of Cape Town, South Africa)
Institutional Collaborators
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
ACoustic CUe RATEs for passive acoustic density estimation
Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation
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News
- 15/05/2022: We congratulate Alex Mirugwe on the acceptance of his paper titled “Automating bird detection based on webcam captured images using deep learning" to appear at SAICSIT2022.
- 05/05/2022: Dr. Emmanuel Dufourq will be presenting a skills showcase titled “Deep learning and bioacoustics" at ISEC2022.
- 01/01/2022: Dr. Emmanuel Dufourq is part of the PIs who launched the “Advancing biodiversity informatics and ecological modelling" NITheCS Research Programme.
Open Access Datasets
- Automated detection of Hainan gibbon calls for passive acoustic monitoring
- Pin-tailed whydah (Vidua macroura) calls for passive acoustic monitoring
- ???Investigating automated bird detection from webcams using machine learning
- Thyolo alethe (Chamaetylas choloensis) calls for passive acoustic monitoring
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata) calls for passive acoustic monitoring
