Wild Me joins AI for Earth
Microsoft News Center"“The world is facing a major biodiversity crisis, and Wild Me’s work in harnessing computer vision and machine learning to monitor and track individual animals is truly groundbreaking,” said Bonnie Lei, AI for Earth project manager at Microsoft."
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Michelle Lancaster, Microsoft Blog"Wildbook blends a diversity of functions and disciplines into a cloud-based common platform with tools for data collection, storage, analysis, and collaboration that help researchers operate on a larger stage." Standing out from the pack: Wild Me uses AI to revolutionize animal identification
Michelle Lancaster, Microsoft Blog"Wildbook blends a diversity of functions and disciplines into a cloud-based common platform with tools for data collection, storage, analysis, and collaboration that help researchers operate on a larger stage." Call of the Wild(book): How GPUs Help Track Threatened Animal Species
Tony Kontzer, NVIDIA Blog"To date, the team has created 15 Wildbooks for animals ranging from giraffes and polar bears to whale sharks and manta rays. It has a backlog of more than 200 requests from conservationists for more Wildbooks." The case for technology investments in the environment
Lucas Joppa, Nature"By identifying each individual animal, together with where and how often it’s photographed, these algorithms are providing new ways of producing global population estimates for endangered species." Snap a Shark Photo and Help Save the Biggest Fish on Earth
Jason Bittel, National Geographic"Over the last 22 years, Norman and his colleagues have collected nearly 30,000 images of these markings in the Wildbook database—many of them taken by tourists—and used them to identify more than 6,000 individual sharks from all over the world." Tracking the Elusive Whale Shark
Karen Weintraub, The New York Times"The ability to photo-identify species — and indeed the whale shark was the first shark we could do this for — has transformed our ability to understand how many individuals are out there, who is moving where, how far do they go, and how many are staying around." The Citizen Science Revolution and Artificial Intelligence
Michael Bear, SciTech Connect"Contained within Wildbook are two pattern recognition algorithms, which scan submitted photographs and analyze the black freckling pattern, seen around the eyes and gill area of this species facilitating individual recognition. In this way, photographs submitted over time in a single location can determine which sharks are returning to the location from year-to-year." Finding Big Fish Online: How Wild Me Is Turning Vacation Videos Into Shark Science with Artificial Intelligence
PR Web"Their global research platform—Wildbook for Whale Sharks-has combined over 120 researchers and volunteers with 5000+ citizen scientists into a global community focused on studying the population size and migrations of this rare and gentle giant." Tracking the Sea's Gentle Giants
Gary Strauss, National Geographic"Pattern-recognition algorithms adapted from those used by NASA to map stars allow a swelling collection of photos from 54 countries to serve as visual tags for identifying individuals, as well as aid researchers in piecing together migration patterns and territory." |
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