Taking aim at New Yorkers’ biggest civic complaint – noise – a team of scientists from NYU, working with collaborators at Ohio State University, have launched a first-of-its-kind comprehensive research initiative to understand and address noise pollution in New York City and beyond. The project – which involves large-scale noise monitoring – leverages the latest in machine learning technology, big data analysis, and citizen science reporting to more effectively monitor, analyze, and mitigate urban noise pollution.
Zooniverse volunteers can help them immensely in this task by identifying and labeling the sources of the different sounds found in the examples of urban audio recordings taken from the data their sensors have been gathering over the last two years. In doing so you will join their team of experts in acoustics, machine listening, distributed networking, citizen science, digital media, machine learning, data analysis and visualization, and be contributing to our efforts to better understand the city and its patterns of noise pollution.
