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Endangered primates may get help from Facial recognition

by Trevor Marshall
-- May 28, 2018
Endangered primates may get help from Facial recognition

Facial recognition isn’t limited to humans. Researchers have developed a face detection system, PrimNet, that should help save endangered primates by tracking them in a non-invasive way. The neural network-based approach lets field workers keep tabs on chimpanzees, golden monkeys and lemurs just by snapping a photo of them with an Android app it’ll either produce an exact match or turn up five close candidates. That’s much gentler than tracking devices, which can stress or even hurt animals.

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n practice, PrimNet and its mobile app tend to have “greater than 90 percent accuracy.” That’s not ideal, but that and the “top five” approach could easily be enough. And importantly, there’s more work on the way. The creators hope to cover more primates and open source the code so that anyone can use the technology, including anti-trafficking agents who might use it to trace the origin of a captured primate.

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