If each animal could be photographed and uniquely identified many times each day, the science of ecology and population biology, together with the resource management, biodiversity, and conservation decisions that depend on this science, could be dramatically improved.
compbio.cs.uic.edu/IBEIS
IBEIS is a large autonomous computational system that starts from image collections and progresses all the way to answering ecological and conservation queries, such as population sizes, species distributions and interactions, and movement patterns. The images are taken by field scientists, tourists, and incidental photographers, and are gathered from camera traps and autonomous vehicles. IBEIS can detect various species of animals in those images and identify individual animals of most striped, spotted, wrinkled or notched species. It stores the information about who the animals are, where they are and when they are there in a database and provides query tools to that data for scientists and curious people to find out what those animals are doing and why they are doing it.
hey, does anyone know how i can contact Jon Van East? I have been trying to talk to him about and experience I had. All his links come to dead ends. Help Me get a hold of him please.
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ReplyDeletehi there, actually me too... iv been wanting to contact jon aswell, hope you are well jon! loved meeting you a few years back :)
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