Healthy coral reefs are of great importance for the continuation of life in the seas. Googling has long supported efforts to protect reefs. The tech giant is now SurfPerch He presented the artificial intelligence tool at the service of marine biologists.

Developed by Google Research and the DeepMind team artificial intelligence, trained on thousands of hours of audio recorded on reefs. These sounds have made it possible to “hear from the inside whether the reefs are healthy or not.” In addition, life on the reefs could be observed in murky water or at night.

Fish sounds detected by humans

Google’s “Calling our coralsOn the website people say: sounds of the reefs They listened and if they heard a fish sound, they indicated it by clicking. The bioacoustic data obtained here was also used to train artificial intelligence. Thanks to Google’s new fish sound library, it was possible to refine the artificial intelligence. SurfPerch can now be trained on new sounds in a very short time.

Saying that thanks to this method, data is created in a much more sustainable way. GooglingUsing a combination of data and artificial intelligence, they were able to distinguish between protected and unprotected reefs in the Philippines. Also regenerating reefs in Indonesia and Great Barrier Reef The system worked successfully during the tests performed on it.