Program areas at Wild Me Conservation
Modernizing wildlife surveys (mws)/kaza survey - mws/kaza applies ai to process high volumes of imagery for wildlife population assessment via aerial surveys. Our first application will be to the kaza transfrontier aerial survey.
Wildbook (www.wildbook.org) is our flagship project, underlying most of Wild Me's research and technology efforts. Continuing the development of wildbook as a free and open-source software package for use by the wildlife research community. Accomplishments included upgraded computer-vision algorithms to identify individual animals by their natural markings and application of those algorithms to new species, including african Wild dogs, leopards, cheetah, and various cetaceans. Wildbook supports approximately 1400 researchers around the globe for 50+ species.
Flukebook.org - flukebook is a global-scale cetacean research platform supporting noaa, boem, and whale and dolphin researchers around the world with free access to cutting-edge machine learning tools to speed and scale photo-identification for population assessments. Tracking 73,000+ individual whales and dolphins.
Additional program services are variants of the top three listed on lines 4a-c: development, maintenance, and in some cases operation of online wildlife photo-identification research databases for different species. These include: www.whaleshark.org, www.mantamatcher.org, www.flukebook.org, www.spotashark.com, www.whiskerbook.org, giraffespotter.org, and others. All are instances of our wildbook software platform. More platforms can be found at: httpswwwwildmeorgplatformshtml