This was one of the last but not least activities we did while I was with the Iranian Cheetah Society. It’s definitely one of the most important tasks we undertook. With the help of Peter van Lunteren at Addax Data Science, we incorporated a significant number of Iranian species, particularly desert species, into an artificial intelligence model. This means that Iranian researchers, who previously had to spend countless hours sorting through hundreds of thousands of images captured by camera-traps, can now use this model to easily categorize the images as they wish. By inputting all the camera images into the software, they can receive them categorized by species. This model is now available for FREE and supports the following category of species:
- Antilope
- bird
- camel
- caracal
- cat
- cheetah
- equid
- fox
- goat+sheep
- hyena
- leopard
- porcupine
- wolf+jackal
Peter was generous enough to provide this service for free due to the sanctions and financial difficulties in Iran. Thanks to this artificial intelligence model, the classification of images will now be much faster for large projects, such as monitoring the population of Cheetah, which can produce several hundred thousand images per year. This means fewer hours by computer and more hours on the field!
. For installation instructions, please visit the Addax website.