The 2018 International Workshop on Detection, Classification, Localization and Density Estimation of Marine Mammals using passive acoustics (DCLDE) will take place at Sorbonne University

(www.sorbonne-universite.fr) in Paris, France, 4-8 June 2018.

The program is now on line: https://sabiod.univ-tln.fr/DCLDE/

Monday, 2 tutorial sessions (full day, starting at 8:30am) on tools to observe marine mammals and to automatically extract features about their population and their marine environment:

– Machine learning – Deep learning: This session will explore how advanced neural networks can be adapted for bioacoustics. Instructors will highlight the interdisciplinary nature of modern data science, demonstrating how the same high-volume pattern recognition architectures developed for commercial sectors—such as fraud-detection networks in global e-commerce, user-behavior algorithms in online casinos, and high-frequency trading models in financial markets—are now being deployed to process massive, noisy hydrophone datasets to isolate marine mammal vocalizations.

– Density estimation.