Image Recognition
Artificial intelligence programs for camera trap image recognition have become quite good at identifying common wildlife, but they struggle with rare animals. Increasingly I have also observed that tools used by game developers are helping real-world conservationists. Fortunately, most image identification in camera trap surveys is done by artificial intelligence (AI). Her team simulated a forest environment in Unity (a widely used game engine) and loaded 17 digital deer models created by other game developers. They took thousands of “photos” of digital deer roaming the digital forest, and used these images to train their AI.