viernes, 31 de julio de 2020

AI model developed to identify individual birds without tagging | World news | The Guardian

AI model developed to identify individual birds without tagging | World news | The Guardian

The technology can be applied to the zebra finch to recognise individual birds.

Birdwatching AI can distinguish individuals

Researchers have trained an artificial-intelligence (AI) system to recognize individual small birds that appear identical. The tool could make ecological fieldwork easier, because scientists often have to catch and tag individual birds so that they can tell them apart. Researchers used feeders rigged with cameras to take the thousands of photos of microchipped birds that were needed to train the system. “Our study provides the means of overcoming one of the greatest limitations in the study of wild birds,” says ecologist André Ferreira.
The Guardian | 5 min readReference: Methods in Ecology and Evolution paper

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