Humans Are Now Monitoring Animals With Facial Recognition Technology (nymag.com) 29
An anonymous reader quotes New York magazine:
Salmon are just the latest entry in a growing cornucopia of animal faces loaded into databases. For some animals, the biometric data gathered from them is being used to aid in conservation efforts. For others, the resulting AI could help ward off poachers. While partly creepy and partly very cute, monitoring of these animals can both help protect their populations and ensure safe, traceable livestock for developing communities...
U.K. researchers are using online resources like Flickr and Instagram to help build and strengthen a database that will eventually help track global tiger populations in real time. Once collected, the photos are analyzed by everyday people in a free app called Wildsense... The mighty lion is being surveilled too. Conservationists and wildlife teachers are using facial recognition to keep tabs on a database of over 1,000 lions... Wildlife experts are tracking elephants to protect them from encroaching poachers. Using Google's Cloud AutoML Vision machine learning software, the technology will uniquely identify elephants in the wild. According to the Evening Standard, the tech will even send out an alert if it detects poachers in the same frame.
The story of whale facial tracking is one of crowdsourcing success. After struggling to distinguish specific whales from one another on his own, marine biologist Christian Khan uploaded the photos to data-competition site Kaggle and, within four months, data-science company Deepsense was able to accurately detect individual whale faces with 87% accuracy. Since then, detection rates have steadily improved and are helping conservationists track and monitor the struggling aquatic giant.
U.S. researchers are trying to protect "the world's most endangered animal" with LemurFaceID, which is able to accurately differentiate between two lemur faces with 97% accuracy. But "In the livestock surveillance arms race China is definitely leading the charge," the article notes, citing e-commerce giant JD.com and its use of facial recognition to monitor herds of pigs to detect their age, weight, and diet.
And one Chinese company even offers a blockchain-based chicken tracking system (codenamed "GoGo Chicken") with an app that can link a grocery store chicken to "its birthplace, what food it ate and how many steps it walked during its life."
U.K. researchers are using online resources like Flickr and Instagram to help build and strengthen a database that will eventually help track global tiger populations in real time. Once collected, the photos are analyzed by everyday people in a free app called Wildsense... The mighty lion is being surveilled too. Conservationists and wildlife teachers are using facial recognition to keep tabs on a database of over 1,000 lions... Wildlife experts are tracking elephants to protect them from encroaching poachers. Using Google's Cloud AutoML Vision machine learning software, the technology will uniquely identify elephants in the wild. According to the Evening Standard, the tech will even send out an alert if it detects poachers in the same frame.
The story of whale facial tracking is one of crowdsourcing success. After struggling to distinguish specific whales from one another on his own, marine biologist Christian Khan uploaded the photos to data-competition site Kaggle and, within four months, data-science company Deepsense was able to accurately detect individual whale faces with 87% accuracy. Since then, detection rates have steadily improved and are helping conservationists track and monitor the struggling aquatic giant.
U.S. researchers are trying to protect "the world's most endangered animal" with LemurFaceID, which is able to accurately differentiate between two lemur faces with 97% accuracy. But "In the livestock surveillance arms race China is definitely leading the charge," the article notes, citing e-commerce giant JD.com and its use of facial recognition to monitor herds of pigs to detect their age, weight, and diet.
And one Chinese company even offers a blockchain-based chicken tracking system (codenamed "GoGo Chicken") with an app that can link a grocery store chicken to "its birthplace, what food it ate and how many steps it walked during its life."
Ward off poachers? (Score:2)
Another dupe (Score:2)
We already knew, somebody told us days ago here, on this very place, while you obviously weren't here.
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"Humans Are Now Monitoring Animals With Facial Recognition Technology"
Not the same. In this version it's the animals who have the facial recognition technology and the humans who are monitoring them.
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help track global tiger populations in real time
Help who? Poachers? Chinese witch doctors hunting for boner medicine?
This will not end well.
Albeit a dupe ... (Score:2)
I hope that finally we'll get a cheap method to count birds at feeding places, differentiating between individuals and determining the species.
Oh and BTW also cat-flaps who detect a cat-face with a bird/mouse in its maws from one without.
Will GoGo Chicken stir up revenge-peckings? (Score:2)
This is terrifying! (Score:1)
When did animals develop facial recognition technology? Shouldn't we have started monitoring long before they got this advanced?
Groucho (Score:2)
I have visions of cats wearing Groucho Marx masks.
Apps (Score:2)
Good, Don't You Think (Score:1)
I always wondered if the devices used to track animals (e.g. GPS trackers and such) would affect the results and give the similar "the results changed whilst debugging" error.
For Animals, It's Not Always Face Recognition (Score:2)
facial recognition (Score:1)
Poor fishes. (Score:2)
Even they don't get any privacy like us. :(