Beyond the Hotel: Developments in Artificial Intelligence - Ameniti - A.I. for Hospitality

Conservation group Snapshot Serengeti has been collecting data for years using its motion-sensor "camera traps," which take photos of wild animals without disturbing them. Using AI, researchers have developed a new way to make this monitoring more accurate and efficient. Collaborators from Harvard, Oxford, the University of Minnesota, and Auburn University compiled images with descriptions and labels manually entered by humans. They then used deep learning to train a computer to correctly identify factors like species, number of animals, and types of behavior in images captured by the camera traps. Categorizing these photos manually requires a significant amount of time and resources, with most of the work currently done by volunteers.