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Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in the field to analyse information collected by wildlife conservationists, from camera trap and satellite images to audio recordings. AI can learn how to identify which photos out of thousands contain rare species; or pinpoint an animal call out of hours of field recordings - hugely reducing the manual labour required to collect vital conservation data.

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NBM - A collaborative and open source project to monitor Nocturnal Bird Migration

Dear all,  I wanted to present the NBM project. NBM (for Nocturnal Bird Migration) is a collaborative and open source project that we started at the end of 2020 with...

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Updates will regularly be added in comments ! 

Hi everyone! We were so delighted to have Adrien along to our June Variety Hour to share more about the Nocturnal Bird Migration project. If you missed it, you can catch up with the project here: 

Some useful links shared by Adrien and Louis in the chat: 

If you have any questions as you're catching up, drop them below and Adrien will pick them up :) 

Steph 

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Project Spotlight: Monitoring tropical freshwater fish in Kakadu National Park with drones, underwater cameras and AI

This was such a fantastic presentation in our June Variety Hour show. Andrew and his team are exploring applications of a whole range of technologies, anda are looking to share...

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During Andrew's talk, @dmorris put out a call in the chat that might be relevant to folks catching up on the video, so I'll drop it here too: 

Re: Andrew's fish work... part of the reason I got in touch with Andrew a few weeks ago is that I'm trying to keep track of public datasets and public models for marine video that have basically this gestalt (video where fish look fishy-ish). I think we're getting close to enough public data to train a general-purpose model that will work well across ecosystems. My running list of datasets is here:

https://lila.science/otherdatasets#images-marine-fish

Let me know if folks know of others!

There are also a grand total of two public models that I'm aware of that sort of fall into this category... one is Andrew's:

https://github.com/ajansenn/KakaduFishAI

The other is:

https://github.com/warplab/megafishdetector

If folks know of other publicly-available models, let me know about those too!

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Automatically detect animals in camera trap images and filter out the empties

Hi, just wanted to let you know the existence of EcoAssist. It's a no-code interface which makes the use and installation of the MegaDetector model easy. It's free, open-...

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AI for Eagles Challenge

In the AI for Eagles Challenge, by FruitPunch AI 50 AI enthusiasts and experts from all over the globe will be training classifiers to recognize golden and white-tailed eagles in flight and classify them into age groups...

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New Add-ons for Mbaza AI

At Appsilon, we are always working to enable our users to get the most out of our solutions. With this in mind, we are happy to introduce two new add-ons to Mbaza AI. 

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Techonomy 23: The AI Dilemma

Techonomy 23 is a three-day retreat dedicated to exploring the risks and rewards of the AI revolution. Join us in Lake Nona, FL, as we dive into AI development's opportunities, threats, and challenges. From healthcare...

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Celebrating World Oceans Day: Revitalizing the marine ecosystem with technology-driven engineered reefs to accelerate CO2 capture

As we celebrate World Oceans Day this month, we are reminded that addressing climate change will take more than any one organization. It will require companies, governments, NGOs and communities, all working together, with the aid of technology, to improve the efficiencies of our activities and operations and to reduce costs, waste and emissions. Such an example is IBM and The Reef Company recently joining forces signing a joint initiative agreement aimed at bolstering their ocean conservation endeavors.

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ISO Speakers for Emerging Technologies class.

Hi Everyone, Apologies for posting across multiple groups.  I'm teaching a new course @ Clark University next semester on emerging technologies for conservation. The course...

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Definitely interested! I'm in the ecoacoustics/acoustic monitoring space, working at Rainforest Connection and Arbimon.

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