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I'm a lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales .
I generally teach first & second year programming courses such as Software Construction and Computing 1A
Most of my research time is spent with building software and hardware which can recognise animal vocalisations in the field. Pretty pics below.
Contact Details
Andrew Taylor School of Computer Science and Engineering University of New South Wales Sydney 2052 Australia E-mail: andrewt@cse.unsw.edu.au Phone: 61 2 9385-5525 Fax: 61 2 9385-5995 My office is K17 401G on Level 4 of the Computer Science building which is next to UNSW's Barker St car park.
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Cane Toad Impact Project
With Gordon Grigg (UQ), Hamish McCallum (UQ), Graeme Watson (Melbourne Uni.) I've been involved in a long term study to measure what, if any, impact the arrival of the toads has on native frogs at site in Kakadu and the Roper River valley of Australia's Northern Territory. The study uses solar-powered computers with microphones. Machine learning-based software is used to automatically identify each of the calls of the 23 species of frogs found in the region. These computers operate untended for an entire year in hostile conditions. including cyclones, numerous storms, flooding, wet season heat & humidity, dry season fires and interference by wildlife and humans.
Cyclorana australis sonagram - click to hear its call
Cyclorana australis
Litoria wotjulumensis sonagram - click to hear its call
Litoria wotjumulensis
Our frog monitoring hardware.
One of our portable monitoring stations.
Our Mamukala frog monitoring site at the end of the dry
Gordon Grigg checking the same site in the middle of the wet.
Wet season sunset at one of our Roper River frog monitoring sites.
Another Roper River frog monitoring site in the dry.
Arnhemland fire at the end of the dry season
Early wet season storm over Sandy Billabong in Kakadu