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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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Camera Trapping: Incredibly Useful Resources List

Ariel Hammond
Ahead of the upcoming Camera Trapping Sympoisum, organiser Arie Hammond has compiled a list of key resources for camera trapping, covering everything from reading lists for beginners to data sets, models and tools for...

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Who wants to learn Python? Courses to get you started coding

Hello all,    I found a Youtube video that shows how to code in Python in six lines, powered by Google. Enjoy!   Regards, John

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A couple of years ago I completed the Coursera course Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) with Charles Severance. I found it really well paced and well taught. He's a very personable tutor, and has also written a free book Python for Everybody, available as a PDF.

I found the Coursera course on R Programming with Roger Peng to be more difficult to follow, but I'm not sure whether that was down to the teaching style or the language itself. For R, I'd definitely recommend the best place to get started is swirl - Learn R, in R!

Happy coding

Hello everyone what are you wating for..

All US, UK, India users can enroll courses from Intellipaat (the largest IT trainng company)

check some of thier superb training list:

Tableau certification

Spark training

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Plant-Powered Camera Trap Breakthrough

Alasdair Davies
Microbial fuel cells, developed by Plant-powered Camera Trap Challenge winners Plant-E, have been used successfully with Xnor.ai's energy harvesting camera technology to capture what are thought to be the world's first...

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Automated Identification of Indonesian Rhinos

Cooper Oelrichs
In this case study, Cooper Oelrichs of Save Indonesian Endangered Species Fund (SIES) breaks down his proposal for the development and training of an automated rhino identification system from limited camera trap data.

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Hello buzzing World!

Hi, I would just like to introduce our Project BEESWAX7 and announce that today we acheived two milestones for success; we recorded bee buzzes using the AudioMoth audio...

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ML at the Edge

There's a discussion over in camera traps about the design of a device to run autonomously (in an inaccessible location) with reliable power (solar) but low bandwidth,...

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New open data site for fisheries

I got to help TNC launch fishnet.ai over the weekend, a home for training data for fisheries monitoring & computer vision AI. We have a bunch more data in our pipeline and...

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AI for Earth Innovation Grant (extended)

Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation
To further their missions, LDF and Microsoft are collaborating on the AI for Earth innovation grant to support applicants in creating and deploying open source machine learning models, algorithms, and data sets that...

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CogX Festival of AI and Emerging Technology - free tickets for WILDLABS members

Hi wildlabbers,  Our partners Arm would like to offer WILDLABS members free tickets to attend the CogX Festival of AI and Emerging Tech in London, June 10-13. Arm are...

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UPDATE: We've had quite a few members emailing us for tickets, so I'm looking forward to meeting everyone in person! We've now been allocated some extra tickets, so if you are interested you're in luck, there is still a chance to come along. 

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WILDLABS TECH HUB Showcase

WILDLABS Team
Join us at the Tech Hub Showcase event ot hear how our winners are using technology to scale their solutions to the illegal wildlife trade. The event will take place at Digital Catapult, 101 Euston Road, London, on the...

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Meet the WILDLABS TECH HUB Winners

WILDLABS Team
In February, we released an open call for the WILDLABS TECH HUB, offering 3 months of support for solutions using technolgy to tackle the illegal wildlife trade. We were overwhelmed by an incredible 37 submissions,...

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Huge appetite for data trusts, according to new ODI research

Open Data Institute
To realise the potential benefits of data for our societies and economies we need trustworthy data stewardship. We need to establish different approaches to deciding who should have access to data, for what purposes and...

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WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Low Cost, Open-Source Solutions

WILDLABS Team
The first event in Season Two of the WILDLABS Virtual Meetup Series was on Low-Cost, Open-Source Solutions. The recording is now available to watch, along with notes and recommended reading based on the discussion. In...

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Conserving the Sumatran and Javan Rhino

Save Indonesian Endangered Species (SIES) will be building a machine to identify individual Indonesian rhino.  This will be challenging due to low data numbers.... Sumatran...

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Hello Claire, 

Engineer at Wild Me here. We would love to start a conversation about a Wildbook for rhinos. 

Lets talk about citizen science and computer vision for identification possibilities. I'm curious about your current data set and the identification tools you are using as a starting point. I'm happy to talk here, or you can email our team at [email protected].

Hi Claire,

At the BearID Project, we are working on a similar problem for brown bears. We are currently using machine learning methods developed for human facial recognition (like Google FaceNet). We got some ok initial results, but now we are running up against small data issues. The method for human faces were trained with millions of images of hundreds of thousandes on individuals. We have a few thousand images of about a hundred individuals. We plan to investigate other methods in the future.

It will be great to keep in touch to see what methods you will be using.

Ed

Hi Colin,

At the BearID Project, we are working on a similar problem for brown bears. We are currently using machine learning methods developed for human facial recognition (like Google FaceNet). We got some ok initial results, but now we are running up against small data issues. The method for human faces were trained with millions of images of hundreds of thousandes on individuals. We have a few thousand images of about a hundred individuals. We plan to investigate other methods in the future.

The last time I talked to WildMe, the identification algorithms were based on matching unique patterns. We didn't think this would be directly applicable for brown bears as they don't have a lot of clearly identifiable markings. Have you developed other identification algorithms?

Ed

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Responsible AI for Conservation?

AI is booming in conservation, with almost daily news articles on how it will solve problem X with algorithm Y. Indeed, there's huge potential here. But, as the old adage goes...

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Hi Jaishanker

Absolutely - the overlap between image-based and sound-based analyses is increasing, and consistent terminology will no doubt help us share info. 

Are you using ML in SODA for automated identification of sounds? If so, how are you determining if a given classifier is performing well? 

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Ollie

Hello Ollie,

SODA is a recently launched suite. It is in the development phase. We have with us call libraries with multiple (40+) calls for 10- 12 species of birds. A research scholar is on the job for classifying at the species level.

Our interest is equally on separating the different sonic components (as stated in https://www.wildlabs.net/community/thread/666). It is different from the link shared in my previous reply. This is where I see the confluence of objectives.

As a TEAM, I believe, we can address the individual objectives faster.

regards

jaishanker

 

Hi Ollie, 

Great article, thank you!  I mostly work with responsible AI in other contexts, at Doteveryone.org.uk and the Trust & Technology Initiative at the University of Cambridge, so don't have much to offer here, although I am very interested in the topic.  I appreciate your point that many of the consumer data issues highlighted in the 'popular' responsible AI discourse aren't relevant to conservation (some of us have been gathering 'responsible tech' / 'ethical tech' resources in a shared doc, and there's essentially nothing there for conservation specifically - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SN6hYeKe3eRK6x9D0Sr7GpCA4nirpyo3u68xG1A6NDs/edit ). However there might be some links with humanitarian data practices, which are touched on by the Responsible Data folks at https://responsibledata.io and https://www.fabriders.net/data-literacy-consortium/ or in this recent article https://asecondmouse.wordpress.com/2019/02/20/instability-forecasting-models-seven-ethical-considerations/

Best, 

Laura

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