The software that track the tigers – National Geographic France

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It remains only 3,160 tigers in the wild. Able to identify is essential.

But digital data are difficult to collect, track these big cats is often a tedious job and camera traps that perform snapshots are not always reliable.

Here are involved the crowdsourcing ( “participatory production”) and citizen science. Aaron Manson, a computer scientist at the University of Surrey (England), created applications that can identify the tigers in their facial features and unique patterns of their fur.

Software reviewed millions of pictures of tigers posted. If it finds a set of characteristics, the individual is added to the database that contains permanently updated figures.

By Jeremy Berlin

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