Penguin Watch Talk

Using Artificial Intelligence to process dramatically more photos

  • brandonillinois by brandonillinois

    Hi Penguin Watch team,

    I heard the NPR story and I hope you get more volunteers to make good progress.

    That said, I encourage you to continue looking into how computers using artificial intelligence can "learn" from your volunteers how to identify penguins, chicks and eggs in the photos. I bet you've considered this idea already, but I encourage you to keep examining this.

    Below are two TED talks that show you some of the state of the art in compelling and short videos.

    TED talk that highlights some of the latest advances (Dec 2014):
    http://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_howard_the_wonderful_and_terrifying_implications_of_computers_that_can_learn

    TED talk by a Carnegie Mellon professor who "builds systems that combine humans and computers to solve large-scale problems that neither can solve alone":
    http://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_collaboration

    Let me know if there's any way I can provide more info or support. Thanks for your good work!

    Brandon Bowersox-Johnson
    brandonbowersox@gmail.com
    (also a CTO at a software/tech consulting company)

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  • caitlin.black by caitlin.black moderator, scientist, admin

    Hi Brandon,
    Thanks for your comment. We are currently working with Andrew Zisserman (University of Oxford) to automate the image annotations using computer vision techniques. Any annotations from Penguin Watch go both towards scientific goals directly and towards automating the process in the future.

    Thanks for the links!

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