Why we do this
Seals roam so vastly that no one research group can study them across their range. Seal Wildbook enables researchers to come together across countries and species to more easily study and protect these animals.
Wildbook applies computer vision algorithms and deep learning to identify and track individual animals across hundreds of thousands of photos. We help researchers collaborate with each other and citizen scientists contribute to the effort. A.I. scales and speeds research and conservation.
We train computer vision to automatically process photos and identify the species of any animal found.
When we know where each animal is, we can identify them individually using algorithms that make digital "fingerprints" for each animal, looking for unique patterns. We replace hours of human labor with just a few minutes of computer vision, scanning for matches across tens of thousands of photos.
If we can quickly track individuals in a population, we can model size and migration to generate new insights and support rapid, data-driven conservation action.
We can identify individuals of these species using fully automated computer vision:
and more soon!
1310 identified animals
15350 reported sightings
48 citizen scientists
89 researchers and volunteers
Seals roam so vastly that no one research group can study them across their range. Seal Wildbook enables researchers to come together across countries and species to more easily study and protect these animals.