INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A mature artificial intelligence (AI)-powered recognition innovation is helping wildlife conservation efforts in species from threatened
golden snub-nosed monkeys to susceptible takins in the Qinling Mountains, known as Chinas gene bank of wild biology.June is the very best
time to count the number of newborn golden snub-nosed monkeys which are under nationwide top-notch protection
At a Qinling Mountains national clinical observation and research station in Foping County of northwest Chinas Shaanxi Province, scientists
from the College of Life Sciences under the Northwest University have been carrying out a brand-new round of data collection for around 100
golden snub-nosed monkeys in 8 families.Based on 20 years of field observations, the research study group led by Professor Guo Songtao with
the College of Life Sciences under the Northwest University, developed an artificial intelligence identification innovation, whose algorithm
model was trained with single frames from videos of the monkeys
Like for this female monkey, whose name is Xiaoxiaoqing, our AI system has the ability to show its private info, including its name, all its
genetic info, and group structure information, Guo said
We have a number of hours of video data for each of the golden snub-nosed monkeys here
So through these videos together with image processing, we had numerous countless single frames which were utilized to train the algorithm
model to identify each of the monkeys, said Guo
We are weighing the monkeys
We do this throughout each season, said Zhang Jinbang, a college student with the Northwest Universitys College of Life Sciences
We will utilize relevant data in later studies, consisting of impacts on their weight by nutrition and other elements, stated another
trainee named Liu Hongying.The AI recognition innovation has likewise been used to observe other wild animals consisting of takins.As a
natural boundary in between the countrys north and south, the Qinling Mountains, mainly in Shaanxi Province, cover more than 50,000 square
kilometers and house a big range of plants and wild animals.Giant pandas, golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins and crested ibises, all noted as
nationwide first-rate protected types, are the four most representative types in the Qinling Mountains.
