Urban Observatory: Sound and Visual AI for Biodiversity Detection

Team: Fabio Duarte (PI), MIT DUSP Associate Director of the Senseable Cities Lab, and Lecturer of Technology and Urban Planning, Martina Mazzarello, Titus Venverloo,  Dr. Richard J. Gill and Dr. Sarab Sethi from Imperial College

Summary: Urban ecosystems, often overshadowed by their human-made elements, harbor significant biological diversity that is critical yet challenging to monitor effectively. 

“The grant will boost our ongoing efforts to develop visual and sound AI models to detect different urban phenomena. In this case, insects as a proxy of urban biodiversity.”