AI & Biodiversity 🌍 PhD Student at @UCL @UCLCBER working on Bioacoustics 🔊🐸🦇 🦗 Prev. @Mila_Quebec @inst_humboldt @UNALoficial 🇨🇴
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Juan Sebastián Cañas retweeted
20 Mar 2025
¿Te interesa la bioacústica, la inteligencia artificial y la conservación?
Únete a la sesión de la Comunidad Latinoamericana en 27/3 para conocer BirdCLEF 2025, la competencia a mejorar la identificación de especies a partir de grabaciones acústicas.
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Juan Sebastián Cañas retweeted
17 Mar 2025
#BirdCLEF 2025 is now open! 🐦💡
ESP is proud to support this year's competition by overseeing a @fp_coalition grant that funded a key dataset focused on under-studied species from Colombia’s Middle Magdalena Valley.
🔗 Learn more & participate: imageclef.org/BirdCLEF2025
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13 Mar 2025
Friends in the @Khipu_AI I miss you all this year! 🫶 But check the 2025 BirdCLEF competition to automatically identify neotropical species using sound. It would be amazing to see LATAM teams competing and submitting their working notes #KHIPU2025 kaggle.com/competitions/bird…
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12 Mar 2025
En los últimos meses estuvimos trabajando en un dataset multi-taxonómico para bioacústica en el Magdalena Medio. Ahora será usado para la identificación automática en la competencia de BirdCLEF. Esperamos especialmente equipos de Latinoamérica, todxs invitadxs 🐸🦗🐒🐦🔊🤖
12 Mar 2025
Win up to $15k for using developing computational methods for identifying species based on acoustic signatures with BirdCLEF 2025!
Help enhance biodiversity monitoring and research in Colombia and train reliable classifiers:
wildlabs.net/funding-opportu…
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Juan Sebastián Cañas retweeted
19 Dec 2024
📖Published📖
Our new Application paper presents Whombat, a user-friendly, browser-based interface for managing audio recordings and annotation projects, with several visualization, exploration and annotation tools. Read more here 👇
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Juan Sebastián Cañas retweeted
21 Oct 2024
Celebrating Cali, Colombia, as the host of #COP16Colombia! 🦋✨
Discover some of the stunning butterfly species that call the Valle del Cauca region home. 🌿💫
Via @MariaMonsalve and @IndianaCristo
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Juan Sebastián Cañas retweeted
22 Oct 2024
What does #COP16Colombia need to deliver? On the second day of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, hear from Dr Izzy Bishop who is attending COP16, Professor Kate Jones and Dr Tristram Wyatt. #UCLbiodiversity #PeaceWithNature #PazConLaNaturaleza
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Juan Sebastián Cañas retweeted
17 Oct 2024
¿Cómo puede la IA cambiar el futuro de la conservación en el Neotrópico, y qué nos falta para aprovechar todo su potencial? 🤖🫒🦋
Acompáñanos a debatirlo con expertos en el conversatorio con @Danipilze @ariascvi @goreleuro y JM Ochoa, @inst_humboldt! #Biodiversidad #IA #COP16
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Juan Sebastián Cañas retweeted
21 Oct 2024
Coinciding with #COP16Colombia, UCL’s biodiversity campaign launches today! Learn more about UCL’s biodiversity research and its focus on improving the wellbeing of our societies and the resilience of the ecosystems on which we depend. ➡️ bit.ly/3A5BmZT
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Juan Sebastián Cañas retweeted
1 Oct 2024
We are proud to announce the AMI Dataset, a benchmark for fine-grained insect identification in the wild - published this week at ECCV and the product of a global consortium of computer scientists and entomologists.
arxiv.org/abs/2406.12452
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ALT Example images illustrating how identifying insects from citizen science data is different from IDing them from a camera trap in the field.
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Juan Sebastián Cañas retweeted
30 Sep 2024
¡Junto a @Vane_kingui, creamos un grupo @WILDLABSNET dedicado a la comunidad Latina! Imaginamos un espacio para compartir conocimientos y conectar mentes brillantes en el cruce entre tecnología y conservación. ¡Un lugar para compartir y crecer juntos!
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Juan Sebastián Cañas retweeted
28 Sep 2024
The paradox of poetry and information theory
26 Sep 2024
'Paradoxes in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics' - Gábor J. Székely (1984, PDF):
archive.org/details/paradoxe…
Having a lot of fun with this one so far.
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Juan Sebastián Cañas retweeted
16 Aug 2024
A fabulous camping trip to @KneppWilding for @UCLCBER People & Nature Lab - storks, swimming, fine cuisine, and silly games!
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Juan Sebastián Cañas retweeted
23 Jul 2024
Opening keynote at #ICML2024 by @soumithchintala. These slides came one after each other.
Can you really embrace capitalism and at the same time care about the impact of your work?
Alternative suggestion: Understand and care about the impact of capitalism
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Juan Sebastián Cañas retweeted
8 Jul 2024
High level of engagement and participation today!!
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Juan Sebastián Cañas retweeted
28 Jun 2024
¿Te imaginas poder evaluar la biodiversidad a través de sus sonidos? Conoce cómo esta innovadora técnica nos ayuda a comprender y valorar la biodiversidad en el Guaviare. @inst_humboldt @FcdsOrg
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10 Jun 2024
Nos vemos en Madrid : )
10 Jun 2024
📢Do you want to train your own species call classifier? Curious about what goes on behind the scenes? Learn the basics of ML applied to automatic sound detection, a powerful tool for biodiversity monitoring. Register and enjoy the workshop 8th July Madrid ecoacoustics2024.org
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Juan Sebastián Cañas retweeted
6 Jun 2024
Super excited to share the official release of SurfPerch, an #AI model optimised for #coralreef audio 🪸🐠 In collaboration with @ucl, @zsl and @GoogleDeepMind 🧠 SurfPerch can be rapidly fine-tuned to learn new reef sounds from anywhere in the world 🌏
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