Hey people of the world. 10 days ago I posted here about our new GUI tool where one could drag-n-drop an image and get animals detected on it with bounding boxes.

We have just released the same tool as API endpoint for more tech-oriented members of the community.

Give it a spin and let me know about any problems/feedback/criticism and I will do my best!

Quick start: https://www.animaldetect.com/api

Some technical info on the endpoint:

- Average response time is 1.2-1.5 seconds.

- Image size liimt is 5MB

- Running MegaDetector+SpeciesNet with possibility to specify detection threshold (default is 0.2)

In the near future we are going to expand the list of API endpoints for different use cases. Some of the are:

1. "Animal detected? Yes/No" - For Real-time monitoring

2. Specific animal detector - Looking for an "elephant" and nothing else? This will work.

3. OCR reading of an image - Your images contain a lot of information both in their metadata, and on the image itself. Timestamps, temperature, humidity, gps tags, etc. We can read all of that and return to you.

What other use cases could be useful in API?

Here is a one minute video on how to set up and use it.