AI Meet-up #1: Birdsong recognition. How to hack a Kaggle competition? (подія в архіві)

In this meet-up our own Volodymyr Sydorskyi, a Kaggle grandmaster, will be dissecting his team’s solution to the bird song recognition contest on Kaggle, which took 4-th place among 1390 competing teams.

Respeecher is a Ukrainian company that has created synthetic speech for major video games, including last year’s God of War Ragnarök, and TV shows, including the iconic voices of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader in The Mandalorian and other shows set in the world of Star Wars.

We are organizing a series of AI/ML meetups dedicated to speech processing to build community and exchange experience. They are created for people to exchange experiences and to raise money for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In this event, you will learn about:

— The Fourier transform and other spectral transforms
— Kaggle’s birdsong recognition competition
— Our approach
— What didn’t work
Other participants’ approaches (short overview)

The speaker this time will be Volodymyr Sydorskyi:

— Research Development Team Lead at Respeecher
— Kaggle Competition GrandMaster
— MS in Computer Science. Bachelor’s thesis on generative models in computer vision. Master’s thesis on weakly-supervised approaches for image segmentation

In 2020, Volodymyr Sydorskyi took 4th place in Kaggle’s birdsong recognition competition.

This event will be useful for:

— Kaggle competitors and people interested in competitive data science
— ML/DL engineers (especially in audio, DSP and CV)
— Students of technical universities
People interested in audio and DSP with some DL background

Language: English

Format: Online

Donations: We are very grateful to the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the fact that we can now hold such events. From our side, we also want to help as much as possible. Participation in the event is free, but we ask you to make a small donation, which starts from 50 UAH.

https://send.monobank.ua/jar/9mujff4RMp

We will transfer all the money we collect to the Comeback Alive fund immediately after the event. Or feel free to make a donation directly to a fund and just send us a screenshot.

To attend the event, you must register! Fill out the following short registration form. We will send a link to the stream to this email you submit:
https://www.respeecher.com/birdsong-recognition-hack-kaggle-competition

Promise: no spam or Christmas newsletters — we will send you the link and, if you want, we can send you info about future events.