A pattern recognition software that facilitates the individual identification of Pepeketua, New Zealand endemic frogs.
UNIQUE FROGS
Instead of croaking, New Zealand’s native frogs use chemicals to communicate with each other.
THREATENED
Unfortunately, three of the six species of New Zealand frogs have become extinct.
Biologists are monitoring Archey’s, Maud Island’s and Hamilton’s frogs to ensure they don’t follow the same fate.
MIRROR STAGE
To monitor Archey’s frogs, biologists need to identify each individual frog based on their skin markings.
They use a mirror stage to photograph the frogs from multiple angles and make the identification easier.
INDIVIDUAL ID
Identifying each frog is very labour-intensive and requires trained observers and high-quality photos.
Wildlife.ai is developing a pattern recognition software that facilitates the individual identification of Archey’s frogs.
This open-source software will help biologists to quickly process images and guide an effective conservation management of the species.
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PROJECT NEWS
Pepeketua ID – An app to streamline the identification of Archey’s frogs
In this post, I describe how we have developed the Pepeketua ID app, an open-source software to help identify individuals of Archey’s frogs, a critically endangered species. The app combines three different machine learning [...]
Archey’s frog landmark detection – Part II
Welcome to the second post of the landmark detection models. In this post, I will explain the models we used, the results we got and discuss the next steps for our Pepeketua (frog) identification [...]
Archey’s frog landmark detection – Part I
Welcome to the first of two posts where I will explain how we have developed landmark detection models to locate Archey's frogs. Our models, like the commonly used face-detection models, predict six frog landmarks [...]
