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The world’s most endangered species are under threat from an unsuspecting source—the Internet. The Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online launched this group in partnership with WILDLABS to create a space for discussing the technologies and partnerships that are pushing to turn the tide in the fight against trafficking in wildlife species and products online.

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ImageNet?

Lu Gao

31st October 2019 at 06:36pm

Hi all, does anyone have experience in using ImageNet?  It is an image database that is organized according to the WordNet...

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André Nortje

9th November 2019 at 10:47pm

Hi, deep learning frameworks like Pytorch and Tensorflow come with state-of-the-art image recognition models (VGG, GoogleLeNet, ResNet, Inception etc.) already pre-trained on ImageNet, so one can just download and use them straight away.

This provides a solid starting point as these models have already learnt how to classify objects really well. Transfer learning can then be used to fine-tune them for a specific task like identifying ivory in photos. This just requires that you tweak the existing model a bit and train it on a smaller custom dataset of the image’s/categories you would like to classify.

Hope that helps!

Lu Gao

9th January 2020 at 07:44pm

Really helpful, @adnortje !  And thanks for listing out some of the latest and greatest image recognition models.  Do you know of any programs that are using GoogleLeNet for wildlife image recognition, by chance?

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Machine learning to help fight illegal wildlife trade on social media

Lu Gao

25th April 2019 at 07:21pm

Hi everyone, here's a great paper by our friend Enrico Di Minin and team on the importance and challenges of leveraging social media platforms to monitor illegal wildlife...

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Divya Rathor

21st November 2020 at 02:21pm

@ediminin, thank you for your reply! Your paper was a great read. It's been a little over a year since I asked this question, but didn't get a chance to log in to the site again or follow-up. As you mentioned, is the code from new analyses available now? Thanks in advance for any pointers!

N P

12th December 2020 at 05:29pm

If the actual analysis has been performed, is the dataset available? I had some time during the pandemic and wanted to do something very similar. I e-mailed many different people for a workable dataset but had no luck.

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New projects and publications: Discussion

Lu Gao

20th March 2019 at 07:35pm

Hi everyone!  Be sure to include your new publications or any new projects you'd like more information on in this thread.   Thanks! Lu

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Lu Gao

20th March 2019 at 07:50pm

Hi everyone! 

Check out this great write up, featuring ChimpFace, one of our community member Alexandra Russo's projects: https://www.wildlabs.net/resources/case-studies/chimpface-facial-recogni...

ChimpFace is a facial recognition software that is developed from publicly available image datasets, research and chimpanzee organizations.  The software identifies individual chimpanzees online that are likely to be trafficked, and tags them for review by wildlife experts.  You can visit: https://conservationx.com/project/id/8 for more details.  Comment below if you have any questions on this project!

Lu Gao

20th March 2019 at 07:58pm

Hi all, there is someone on the WILDLABS community looking for help with developing a cloud based folder for over 700 elephants.  Here's his request.  Let me know if you'd like me to put you in touch with him: 

I am a volunteer at a large Eastern Cape South African Game reserve.

We have in excess of 700 elephants that are presently being photographed and documented by volunteer game rangers and their family.

We are trying to create a cloud based folder where each elephant that has be photographed can be identified at a later date by the next photograph we take of them. Hopefully when we re-photograph them the software will be able to identify the elephant as one we have photographed/documented earlier.

We are trying to document the siblings, the mother’s and fathers if possible. This will be an ongoing identification of these animals.

Hopefully there is some sort of software which has been developed that can measure tusks, ears (size or shapes) and/or size of tusks etc. Face recognition?

Polen Cisneros

1st April 2019 at 08:09pm

Hi everyone! 

Check out the WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Low-Cost, Open-Source Solutions, which is the first webinar of the series this year! Tanya Berger-Wolf (Co-Founder and Director of Wildbook.org), who also attended our AI workshop, will be a speaker at the event as well as Alasdair Davies (Founder of Arribada Initiative) and David Lang (Co-Founder of OpenROV and Open Explorer). Their talks will be followed by open discussion and community exchange. For more information and to RSVP, please click on the following link: https://www.wildlabs.net/resources/community-announcements/wildlabs-virtual-meetup-low-cost-open-source-solutions

Date & Time: Tuesday, April 9th, 2019

Main Talks: 3:00-4:00pm GMT / 10:00-11:00am EDT

Additional half hour for discussion: 4:00-4:30pm GMT / 11:00-11:30 EDT

The WILDLABS Virtual Meetup Series is a program of webinars for community members and wider partners to discuss emerging topics in conservation technology and leverage existing community groups for virtual exchange. The aim of the series is to bring leading engineers in the tech sector together with conservation practitioners to share information, identify obstacles, and discuss how to best move forward.

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Upcoming events

Lu Gao

10th December 2018 at 02:21pm

What events will you be attending in 2019 related to wildlife cybercrime?  What events might be of interest to the Community?

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Who’s who - Introduce yourself!

Polen Cisneros

7th December 2018 at 04:42pm

Welcome to the Combatting Wildlife Cybercrime Community of Practice!  In a few sentences, please introduce yourself, your affiliation, and your areas of interest / focus....

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Lu Gao

5th September 2019 at 07:54pm

Welcome to the group, @divyar !  Can you please tell us a little more about yourself and your interests in this thread?  Thanks!

 

Lu Gao

9th January 2020 at 07:41pm

Hi all!  I hope everyon had a restful break.  We have a couple new members to the group!  @dalenerusso and @ediminin can you please introduce yourselves here?

Karima Cherif

9th February 2021 at 01:57am

Hello All,

My name is Karima Cherif and I work for WildAid Marine and our focus is to end wildlife trafficking in our lifetime. I specialize in marine electronics and work in Gabon, Galapagos, Tanzania, and the Bahamas. In Gabon, we have many small scale fishing canoes that transport illegal bush meat such as pangolin and shark fin. Especially, with COVID the trafficking is increasing as people are becoming more despair to feed their families and cover their basic expenses. I append an article from NBC that discussing a new app that we developed in 2020 called O-Fish (Officer's Fisheries Information Sharing Hub). It is free and we invite MPA managers and agencies to try it.

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