We know that visitors on safari each take hundreds if not thousands of pictures a day, but up until now, the only way to turn that into data would be to have a person look at each photo and manually identify the animals pictured, which is very difficult and impractical, said Chuck Stewart, lead researcher, and head of the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer. With IBEIS, not only can the computer look at a picture and say ‘this is a zebra,’ it can also say ‘this is zebra number 126.’
Posted on: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:51:59 +0000