Film premiere – “Die Sprache der Wale”
The television transmitter 3sat will broadcast the documentary “Die Sprache der Wale” by Volker Barth for the first time on Thursday 14 May 2020 at 20:15 in “Wissen hoch 2”. Over a period of 3 years, an interdisciplinary research team consisting of marine biologists, computer scientists and psychologists collected communication and behavioral data of different killer whale families in the Canadian Pacific Ocean to investigate a possible connection between communication patterns and their respective behavior. The research team of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, in particular the pattern recognition lab around Andreas Maier and Elmar Nöth, analyzes and processes the large amount of audiovisual data by using different machine learning methods in order to derive a connection between communication and behavior of the animals.
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Volker Barth’s film “Die Sprache der Wale” shows and accompanies the research team on their expeditions in the Pacific Ocean.
A public and detailed press release can be found at the following link: