Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed new artificial intelligence (AI) models to recognize behaviors of chimpanzees in the wild.
The method will allow researchers and wildlife conservationists to significantly cut back on time and resources spent analyzing animal behavior in video footage, according to the new paper published today in Science Advances.
The new computer model was trained using videos from two populations of wild chimpanzees in West Africa from Bossou in Guinea, and Cantanhez National Park in Guinea-Bissau, to capture several behaviors: nut-cracking, eating, and buttress drumming. The tool is the first of its kind to automatically recognize behavior in wild primates using both audio and video, and builds on previous work which developed an automatic method for tracking and identifying individuals using face recognition.
Continue reading: https://phys.org/news/2021-11-artificial-intelligence-recognise-primate-behaviours.html
The method will allow researchers and wildlife conservationists to significantly cut back on time and resources spent analyzing animal behavior in video footage, according to the new paper published today in Science Advances.
The new computer model was trained using videos from two populations of wild chimpanzees in West Africa from Bossou in Guinea, and Cantanhez National Park in Guinea-Bissau, to capture several behaviors: nut-cracking, eating, and buttress drumming. The tool is the first of its kind to automatically recognize behavior in wild primates using both audio and video, and builds on previous work which developed an automatic method for tracking and identifying individuals using face recognition.
Continue reading: https://phys.org/news/2021-11-artificial-intelligence-recognise-primate-behaviours.html
