Google will save the sea pigs in danger of extinction

Researchers are using new AI-assisted AI technology to search for and track the number of endangered species when their numbers decline. for years.

According to Engaget, tracking endangered species on land has long been a common way to protect them. However, it would be completely different if the subject lived in water, especially in the oceans. How to detect these creatures if all you have is just aerial photographs of a whole area stretching the nautical mile?

Google help us again

The number of sea pigs in the world is declining severely.

The research team from the University of Queensland used Google's TensorFlow machine learning machine to create an automated search engine that tracks and identifies seagulls in oceanographic images. Rather than using human resources to rummage through thousands of images over several days, it now only needs one image recognition system. All the team has to do is load all the ocean pictures into this system and it will look for the same body shape of the sea pig.

Like the current machine learning, this result is not 100% accurate. The first version found only 80% accuracy on photographs showing the presence of the porcine species. Still, things are just getting started and there is still plenty of time to upgrade this device by adding new advanced algorithms. If the efficiency is improved, scientists can estimate the size of marine mammal populations at risk of extinction and track their migration patterns for research and conservation. .

Sea pigs are large mammals, living in seawater. There are 3 species of sea pigs in existence, along with dugongs (Dugong dugong, Dugongidae) forming the Dugong (Sirenia) . Sea pigs are sensitive to changes in water temperature. Water temperature below 15.5 ° C can cause pneumonia and death.

With the help of AI, we can stop the extinction that is threatening to threaten the swine. And many other species.