The Safe Project has placed solar powered microphones in the rainforests in Borneo that live transmit audio that is analysed using machine learning to detect species calls and analyse changes in sound and rainforest landscape over time.
Google's DeepMind developed a new AI model to predict rainfall over a short-term period of 0 to 2 hours, known as nowcasting. The model is now being deployed by The Met Office in the UK.
Researchers at Harvard developed and released an open source image layout OCR deep learning library called Layout Parser which allows effective image parcing of tabled and structured image data at scale.
Seventeen year old Greg Tarr from Bandon Grammer School in Cork won the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE) for creating a more efficient deep fake detector. Check out his video explaining the efficiencies he achieved here.
