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Ștefan Istrate
@stefanistrate.bsky.social
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🌍 Researcher in AI and biodiversity.
📷 Nature photographer and filmmaker.
🐾 Building AI tools for wildlife conservation at Wildlife Insights.

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Reposted by Ștefan Istrate
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I am incredibly excited to see our SpeciesNet model released!! This represents years of work by the @wildlifeinsights.bsky.social AI team (and completely impossible without the amazing Ștefan Istrate's AI development and implementation).

Github: github.com/google/camer...
Blog: bit.ly/4i5cKBs
GitHub - google/cameratrapai: AI models trained by Google to classify species in images from motion-triggered widlife cameras.
AI models trained by Google to classify species in images from motion-triggered widlife cameras. - google/cameratrapai
github.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Reposted by Ștefan Istrate
sarameghanbeery.bsky.social
New paper! We've just published a manuscript covering technical details of the AI models behind Wildlife Insights, with systematic analysis at scale of cropping vs not cropping in #CameraTrap image classifiers 🫎🦌🦒🦘🪿🫏🐘🐫🦬🦛🐿️

ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1049/...
To crop or not to crop: Comparing whole‐image and cropped classification on a large dataset of camera trap images
In this work, the authors assess the hypothesis that classifying animals cropped from camera trap images using a species-agnostic detector yields better accuracy than classifying whole images. We fin....
ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 26, 2024 at 10:49 PM