{"id":35384,"date":"2020-07-27T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/scientists-have-created-a-facial-recognition-software-for-birds\/"},"modified":"2020-07-27T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T18:56:00","slug":"scientists-have-created-a-facial-recognition-software-for-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/scientists-have-created-a-facial-recognition-software-for-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"#Scientists have created a facial recognition software for birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Scientists have created a facial recognition software for birds<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Facial recognition style artificial intelligence has been created\u2026for birds.<\/p>\n

It can tell individuals apart \u2013 which humans find impossible.<\/p>\n

The machine learning tool is up to 92 percent accurate \u2013 and will boost conservation efforts. It may also make monitoring devices that are attached to animals redundant \u2013 which can cause stress.<\/p>\n

The technology<\/a> is similar to software that remembers faces on social media<\/a> and it\u2019s the first time a computer has been trained to recognize our feathered friends.<\/p>\n

Companies like Facebook have access to millions of pictures of different people that are voluntarily tagged by users. But acquiring such labeled photographs of animals is difficult \u2013 and has led to a bottleneck in research.<\/p>\n

The international team overcame this challenge by building feeders with camera traps and sensors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe show computers can consistently recognize dozens of individual birds \u2013 even though we cannot ourselves tell them apart,\u201d said lead author Dr. Andre Ferreira. \u201cIn doing so, our study provides the means of overcoming one of the greatest limitations in the study of wild birds \u2013 reliably recognizing individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bird populations around the world face a number of existing pressures including climate change, intensive farming and deforestation.<\/p>\n

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Global warming has already had a significant impact on numbers \u2013 increasing the extinction risk for many species<\/p>\n

The study published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution involved collecting thousands of labeled images of birds.<\/p>\n

They included wild great tits and sociable weavers and captive zebra finches \u2013 among the most studied animals in nature.<\/p>\n

After programming, the neural network successfully identified over 90 percent of the former two \u2013 and 87 percent of the latter.<\/p>\n

The deep learning technique specializes in classifying images.<\/p>\n

It has previously worked on larger animals at a species level \u2013 as well as specific primates, pigs and elephants.<\/p>\n

But it had never been explored in smaller creatures such as birds \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n

Ferreira, of the University of Montpelier, France, said: \u201cDeep learning has the potential to revolutionize the way researchers identify individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo our knowledge, this is the first successful attempt at performing such an individual recognition in small birds.\u201d<\/p>\n

In behavior studies, individually identifying animals is one of the most expensive and time-consuming problems \u2013 limiting their scope and range.<\/p>\n

Current methods like putting color bands on birds\u2019 legs sometimes cause them anxiety. These issues could be solved with AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe development of methods for automatic, non-invasive identification of animals completely unmarked and unmanipulated by researchers represents a major breakthrough in this research field,\u201d said Ferreira. \u201cUltimately, there is plenty of room to find new app<\/a>lications for this system and answer questions that seemed unreachable in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

The birds belonged to populations in South Africa and Germany. Most carried a PIT (passive integrated transponder) tag.<\/p>\n

This is similar to the microchips implanted in pet cats and dogs. This enabled antennae on the feeders to read their identity \u2013 and trigger the cameras.<\/p>\n

Being able to distinguish animals from each other is important for long-term monitoring \u2013 and protecting species from climate change.<\/p>\n

Some \u2013 like leopards \u2013 have distinct patterns that allow humans to recognize them by eye. But most require additional visual identifiers \u2013 such as ringlets or tiny backpacks.<\/p>\n

These methods are extremely time-consuming \u2013 and can be error-prone.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, our work demonstrates the feasibility of applying state-of-the-art deep learning tools for individual identification of birds, both in the laboratory and in the wild,\u201d said Ferreira.\u201dThese techniques are made possible by our approaches that allow efficient collection of training data.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ability to conduct individual recognition of birds without requiring external markers that can be visually identified by human observers represents a major advance over current methods.\u201d<\/p>\n

His researchers now plan to improve the AI model by collecting images of thousands of individuals over long periods of time.<\/p>\n

Currently, it is only able to pick out those it has been shown before.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is able to identify birds from new pictures as long as the birds in those pictures are previously known,\u201d said Ferreira. \u201cThis means that if new birds join the study population the computer will not be able to identify them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The appearance of individuals can also change over time \u2013 through molting, for instance.<\/p>\n

Both these problems can be overcome with large enough datasets, Ferreira added.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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