GPU-Powered AI Helps Researchers Identify Individual Birds

Anyone can tell an eagle from an ostrich. It takes a skilled birdwatcher to tell a chipping sparrow from a house sparrow from an American tree sparrow. Now researchers are using AI to take this to the next level -- identifying individual birds. André Ferreira, a Ph.D. student at France's Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, harnessed an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 to train a powerful AI that identifies individual birds within the same species. It's the latest example of how deep learning has become a powerful tool for wildlife biologists studying a wide range of animals.