AI in Action: AWC’s Conservation Efforts Enhanced with Machine Learning

Australian Wildlife Conservancy

AWC is embracing AI technology to take huge strides in the efficiency and effectiveness of our conservation work. Meet two of our latest and greatest conservation champion technologies: the Species Classifier Model V4 and Felixer 3.2.

Species detection and identification can be a significant challenge for our staff, with camera traps capturing millions of images, all of which need to be sorted. Trawling through this data takes a mammoth amount of time (and caffeine) and manually filtering out all the pictures triggered by leaves moving in the breeze is not a task for the faint-hearted.

Here’s where our machine learning technology comes in. Our Species Classifier model has been ‘trained’ to identify common species in a specific area, pulling its knowledge from a set of over a million images to identify species with over 95% accuracy. This training is time-intensive, but the results are very promising…

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