Ben Williams
@BenWilliamsSci
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@UCL & @ZSLScience PhD student 🌊 #AI for #coralreefs 🪸With @TheFSBI, @MarsGlobal’s https://t.co/bOWXh0LPor & @GoogleDeepMind 🧠
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Joined June 2019
Excited, humbled and terrified to share I will be giving an upcoming @tedxlondon talk this January at @HackneyEmpire 🙌 Amongst an incredible lineup, I will be speaking on how #AI can be a force for good in the fight to protect coral reefs🪸
tedxlondon.com
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RT @nozdrenkov: Try our 3D "Google Maps for Coral Reefs" prototype 2.1! New 3D Gaussian Splatting model 🌏🪸. 🔵 Why? Coral reefs are so preci….
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People literally throw bombs onto coral reefs to catch fish 💣 We want to help stop this 👇.
‘Across the 6 months the team detected & verified over 4,600 incidents of bomb fishing from this one single recorder.’. 🪸 Marine biologist @BenWilliamsSci, shares how scientists & AI are listen to coral reefs to help protect them!. @ucl @ZSLScience @shebahopegrows
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RT @tedxlondon: 'The world's reefs are dying a death by a thousand cuts from. overfishing, pollution & now climate change'. Marine biolog….
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6/6🧵 I owe this work to countless mentors, collaborators and those who took a chance on me over the past few years 🙏 I finish my PhD this year and hope to continue finding new ways to contribute in this space!.
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5/6🧵 Ever heard of bomb fishing? It’s decimating reefs across the tropics. We developed an AI model that counted >4600 blasts in 6 months from just one single recorder 🎙️💣.
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4/6🧵Working with @GoogleDeepMind we developed SurfPerch, an AI model which can now help anyone build detectors for reef sounds - The secret? It was all in the birds 🦅🦜 Check out our blog:
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We’re releasing the AI model SurfPerch, that is being deployed thanks to contributions from people around the world to our Calling in Our Corals platform
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3/6🧵Some of the highlights:.We travelled to Hope Reef, epicentre of the worlds largest Coral Restoration program, where we discovered AI models could be trained to listen to Coral reefs and track restoration progress 📈 The paper:
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2/6🧵The aim of my talk was to spread the message that there are countless ways we can leverage AI to tackle issues that really matter - I hope this talk will inspire others to take up this challenge 🤗.
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How AI can help protect coral reefs 👇. 1/6🧵 It was an absolute privilege to be given the opportunity to share some the work from my PhD at @ucl and @OfficialZSL, in collaboration with @MarsGlobal and @GoogleDeepMind, on the @tedxlondon stage 🪸🐠.
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RT @nozdrenkov: [PROTOCOL] How to 3D-map Coral Reefs with just a few GoPros 🪸🎥. A simple, low-cost way of creating permanent high-res snaps….
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Getting excited for this weekend with @tedxlondon 🙌.
Our AMAZING lineup for TEDxLondon Festival Of Ideas. @TinukeAwe & Clotilde Abe, @JodieMitchell_ , Sophie Morgan, André Anderson, @jolyonmaugham, @natmc, Sangeetha Iengar, @BenWilliamsSci, @MrNishKumar, @shehadaalaa , Hackney Empire Creative Futures, Kiana Hayeri, @adamjkucharski
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Our new paper out today led by @EmmaFishGal check it out 👇.
🚨NEW paper🚨 out TODAY - the 1st from the brilliant #PhD of @EmmaFishGal 👏🍾🥇. Field #experiment showing coral reef nightlife becomes more predatory with light #pollution. @GlobalChangeBio. w/ @SuzanneCMills @r_beldade @jules_schligler @DrSteveSimpson
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RT @Dwarf_Mongoose: 🚨NEW paper🚨 out TODAY - the 1st from the brilliant #PhD of @EmmaFishGal 👏🍾🥇. Field #experiment showing coral reef night….
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This is the next big thing in reef science coming sooner or later, and I’m betting on sooner!! . Thoroughly encourage anyone to click the link and take a look🔬Soon making high res 3D models of large scale reef sites will be standard for these habitats 🪸.
Let's gooo!! 🌎 Try our 3D "Street View for Coral Reefs" prototype 2.0! 🪸. We did it! Today we've hit a new milestone! It's been a long journey, but we're one step closer. We have a 50x times larger 3D Gaussian Splatting model now, covering over 1000 sq meters of corals. So
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Excited to be talking at this event on Friday! Come on over to @ucl’s @GrantMuseum in Bloomsbury for an epic evening of coral reef science and art 🪸.
Last few spaces available! Join us on 25 October for an evening of poetry, music and marine science exploring coral reefs, their extraordinary biodiversity, and the threats they face.
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RT @GrantMuseum: Last few spaces available! Join us on 25 October for an evening of poetry, music and marine science exploring coral reefs,….
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RT @nozdrenkov: Try our 3D "Street View for Coral Reefs" prototype (3D Gaussian splatting)!. We've hit a new milestone today! A small step….
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Lots of stories to share from my time at @ucl & @zsl with the @TheFSBI, @ExeterMarine, @GoogleDeepMind and the team 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇩.
buildingcoral.com
Building Coral
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