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Tools and resources

MegaDetector

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A free, open-source model that finds animals, people and vehicles in camera-trap photos, so teams can throw away the empty frames.

Projects that used it

Felidae Conservation Fund: volunteers and AI sorting camera-trap photos of pumas

Felidae Conservation Fund runs camera traps across California to study pumas and bobcats. Its platform, WildePod, runs open-source AI models that throw out empty photos and suggest species, so...