AI is being trained to recognize giraffes. Here's why

Lee uses photographs as part of a large ongoing study to understand births, deaths, and the movement of more than 3,000 giraffes in East Africa. He and his team take digital photos of each animal's unique and unchanging spot patterns to identify them throughout their lives. But before pattern recognition software can process the images to identify individuals, the research team has to manually crop each photo or delineate an area of interest.