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Index of Subjects --0000000000006f760f05821b4a4b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi Fritz, I've never used this but I think it's pretty much what you described, esp. if you have a good photo. http://merlin.allaboutbirds.org Rick Whitman On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 13:35, Fritz McEvoy <fritzmcevoy@hotmail.com> wrote: > HI All, > I recently watched an interview on how AI is revolutionizing > diagnostic medical care and it got me to thinking about how that same > revolution should be happening in the world of how we diagnose the ID's of > flora and fauna. Like many of you, I spend a lot of my time trying to > identify bird and insect photos by comparing them to online photos and > descriptions. When I hit a problem species I go online to sites like > naturens or ask an expert for help. > Over the past decade or two the number of online sites and amount of > data to help in these searches has grown exponentially but we still need to > do the do much of the searching in by comparing our photo to possible > online matches. Does anyone know of any research into using advances in; > facial recognition, fingerprint and/or retina scans and AI medical > diagnostic techniques for identifying bird and or insect species? I think > we should soon be able to take a good quality photo of a bird or insect and > use a species diagnostic computer program to ID what species it is likely > to be just like we use similar programs to compare fingerprints. > I don't expect there are any current usable programs out there but > I'd be interested in knowing about any research happening in the field. All > the best. > Fritz McEvoy > Sunrise Valley, CB (near Dingwall) > --0000000000006f760f05821b4a4b Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr">Hi Fritz,<div>I've never used this bu= t I think it's pretty much what you described, esp. if you have a good = photo.</div><div><br></div><div><a href=3D"http://merlin.allaboutbirds.org"= >http://merlin.allaboutbirds.org</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Rick Whit= man</div></div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class= =3D"gmail_attr">On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 13:35, Fritz McEvoy <<a href=3D"m= ailto:fritzmcevoy@hotmail.com">fritzmcevoy@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></= div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;bor= der-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,20= 4);padding-left:1ex"> <div dir=3D"ltr"> <div style=3D"font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color= :rgb(0,0,0)"> HI All,=C2=A0</div> <div style=3D"font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color= :rgb(0,0,0)"> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0I recently watched an interview on how AI is revolution= izing diagnostic medical care and it got me to thinking about how that same= revolution should be happening in the world of how we diagnose the ID'= s of flora and fauna. Like many of you, I spend a lot of my time trying to identify bird and insect photos by comparing them to = online photos and descriptions. When I hit a problem species I go online to= sites like naturens or ask an expert for help.=C2=A0</div> <div style=3D"font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color= :rgb(0,0,0)"> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Over the past decade or two the number of online sites= and amount of data to help in these searches has grown exponentially but w= e still need to do the do much of the searching in by comparing our photo t= o possible online matches. Does anyone know of any research into using advances in; facial recognition, fingerprint and/o= r retina scans and AI medical diagnostic techniques for identifying bird an= d or insect species?=C2=A0 I think we should soon be able to take a good qu= ality photo of a bird or insect and use a species diagnostic computer program to ID what species it is likely to b= e just like we use similar programs to compare fingerprints.=C2=A0</div> <div style=3D"font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color= :rgb(0,0,0)"> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0I don't expect there are any current usable = programs out there but I'd be interested in knowing about any research = happening in the field. All the best.=C2=A0</div> <div style=3D"font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color= :rgb(0,0,0)"> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Fritz McEvoy=C2=A0</div> <div style=3D"font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color= :rgb(0,0,0)"> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Sunrise Valley, CB (near Dingwall= )</div> </div> </blockquote></div> --0000000000006f760f05821b4a4b--
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