?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Forecasting+Avian+Migration+Patterns+using+a+Deep+Bidirectional+RNN+Augmented+with+an+Auxiliary+Task&rft.creator=Owoeye%2C+K&rft.description=Early+forecasting+of+bird+migration+patterns+has+important+application+for+example+in+reducing+avian+biodiversity+loss.+An+estimated+100+million+to+1+billion+birds+are+known+to+die+yearly+during+migration+due+to+fatal+collisions+with+human+made+infrastructures+such+as+buildings%2C+high+tension+lines%2C+wind+turbines+and+aircrafts+thus+raising+a+huge+concern+for+conservationists.+Building+models+that+can+forecast+accurate+migration+patterns+is+therefore+important+to+enable+the+optimal+management+of+these+critical+infrastructures+with+the+sole+aim+of+reducing+biodiversity+loss.+While+previous+works+have+largely+focused+on+the+task+of+forecasting+migration+intensities+and+the+onset+of+just+one+migration+state%2C+predicting+several+migration+states+at+even+finer+granularity+is+more+useful+towards+optimally+managing+the+infrastructures+that+causes+these+deaths.+In+this+work%2C+we+consider+the+task+of+forecasting+migration+patterns+of+the+popular+Turkey+Vulture+(Cathartes+aura)+collected+with+the+aid+of+satellite+telemetry+for+multiple+years+at+a+resolution+of+one+hour.+We+use+a+deep+Bidirectional-GRU+recurrent+neural+network+augmented+with+an+auxiliary+task+where+the+state+information+of+one+layer+is+used+to+initialise+the+other.+Empirical+results+on+a+variety+of+experiments+with+our+approach+show+we+can+accurately+forecast+migration+up+to+one+week+in+advance+performing+better+than+a+variety+of+baselines.&rft.subject=Data+Mining%3A+Mining+Spatial%2C+Temporal+Data%2C%0D%0AMultidisciplinary+Topics+and+Applications%3A+AI+for+Life+Science%2C%0D%0AMachine+Learning%3A+Classification%2C+%0D%0AMachine+Learning%3A+Deep+Learning%3A+Sequence+Modeling&rft.publisher=IJCAI+International+Joint+Conferences+on+Artificial+Intelligence+Organization&rft.date=2021-01-15&rft.type=Proceedings+paper&rft.publisher=Twenty-Ninth+International+Joint+Conference+on+Artificial+Intelligence+and+Seventeenth+Pacific+Rim+International+Conference+on+Artificial+Intelligence+%7BIJCAI-PRICAI-20%7D&rft.language=eng&rft.source=+++++In%3A++Proceedings+of+the+Twenty-Ninth+International+Joint+Conference+on+Artificial+Intelligence+Special+track+on+AI+for+CompSust+and+Human+well-being.++(pp.+pp.+4382-4388).++IJCAI+International+Joint+Conferences+on+Artificial+Intelligence+Organization%3A+Yokohama%2C+Japan.+(2021)+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10120848%2F1%2Fijcai20-multiauthor.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10120848%2F&rft.rights=open