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Artificial Intelligence and its application to butterfly conservation
AI applications related to butterfly conservation
Image Recognition
The conventional method of butterfly identification is based on their different morphological characters
namely wing-venation, colour, shape, patterns and through the dissection studies and molecular
techniques. These methods are tedious, expensive and highly time consuming. Even the books for
butterfly identification available in the market is difficult to use for beginners due to scientific terms and
complexity involved. With an inspiration from this concept of AI, I tried to use of Artificial Intelligence in
butterfly identification. I have developed a simple butterfly identification application to identify the 150
common butterflies of Western Ghats. One can access the same from https://flyid.herokuapp.com/ .
This application of Butterfly AI has tremendously reduced this complexity by automatically and instantly
identifying butterflies with butterfly images.
The days are not so far where, with the addition of emerging Internet of Things technology, the live
human less survey of butterflies is feasible to reduce the human life danger and vulnerability from
wildlife.
Intelligent image organizer
Many image organizer software are available in the market which helps to organize images easily. Most of
the image organizers organize the images based on the EXIF details present behind the images. But, in
certain specialized field like wildlife photography, organizing the images based on EXIF details are of less
importance. This is one of the main
limitation of the present day image
organizer softwares. The most useful
organizing pattern of wildlife
photography is based on their actual
classification/identification. Identification
of a wildlife species is a tedious technical
process that requires special expertise.
Organizing images followed by the
identification is also a laborious task that
needs more time and patience.
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