Douglas is an ocean technologist with the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy. Until recently, Douglas used a computer mouse to manually draw lines around the air bubbles — a time-consuming process that could take 70 to 80 hours to scrub 24 hours of acoustic monitoring data. It was our first time working with this specific kind of acoustic data, audio data for looking at things underwater." (Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy)DeepSense adapted the same model used in facial recognition software. People do want to know that the tidal energy devices don't harm sea life, including fish and marine mammals," said Russell Dmytriw, research director at the non-profit Offshore Energy Research Association.

Source: CBC News March 26, 2021 09:00 UTC