Our Mission
Our mission is to scale wildlife research and support conservationists by providing multi-feature techniques, speed, and accuracy in animal monitoring, replacing hours of human labor with minutes of computation to combat the ongoing sixth mass extinction.
Wild Me promotes the cheaper and more scalable use of photography and AI-powered computer vision to identify individual wildlife, which avoids physically tagging animals and supports public integration using imagery taken from camera traps, aerial surveys, social media images and videos, tourists, and citizen science. We facilitate long-term data curation and collaboration, and empower researchers to leverage the potential of citizen scientists’ contributions.
Wild Me promotes the cheaper and more scalable use of photography and AI-powered computer vision to identify individual wildlife, which avoids physically tagging animals and supports public integration using imagery taken from camera traps, aerial surveys, social media images and videos, tourists, and citizen science. We facilitate long-term data curation and collaboration, and empower researchers to leverage the potential of citizen scientists’ contributions.
The Problem
According to a 2020 study in the PNAS journal, a sixth mass extinction is underway, a trend signaled by widespread vertebrate losses that “may be the most serious environmental threat to the persistence of civilization, because it is irreversible”. Large-scale yet efficient responses and long-term population analysis are necessary for wildlife researchers to understand and respond to species’ population decline.
To effectively counter species’ population decline, conservation projects require not only long-term data curation, collaboration, and engagement with the public, but also individual animal recognition capabilities. Researchers need access to advanced and adaptable computer science tools and technical experience to collect more animal imagery data, analyze it faster to identify individual animals, and use data to continuously optimize solutions in conservation. Isolated population studies provide insufficient amounts of data too sparsely, while manual data processing (by eye) adds years between studies so that results are unclear or too late for effective large-scale conservation action.
To effectively counter species’ population decline, conservation projects require not only long-term data curation, collaboration, and engagement with the public, but also individual animal recognition capabilities. Researchers need access to advanced and adaptable computer science tools and technical experience to collect more animal imagery data, analyze it faster to identify individual animals, and use data to continuously optimize solutions in conservation. Isolated population studies provide insufficient amounts of data too sparsely, while manual data processing (by eye) adds years between studies so that results are unclear or too late for effective large-scale conservation action.
Our Solutions
We provide researchers with pioneering Codex platforms with advanced and adaptable computer science tools to collect more animal imagery data, analyze it faster in order to identify animals, and engage the public to continuously optimize solutions in conservation.
These customizable platforms perform computational photo-identification for many species within minutes, enabling a global scientific community to collaborate online and identify individuals from these species from photos collected by tourists, tour operators, researchers, and the public. Our user base spans six continents of marine and terrestrial species research.
Visit our platforms to discover the many species we support.
These customizable platforms perform computational photo-identification for many species within minutes, enabling a global scientific community to collaborate online and identify individuals from these species from photos collected by tourists, tour operators, researchers, and the public. Our user base spans six continents of marine and terrestrial species research.
Visit our platforms to discover the many species we support.