An Experiment in Deep Learning with Wild Animal Trail Camera Data

Trail cameras are automatically triggered by animal movements. They are used by ecologists and wildlife managers around the world to study wild animal behavior and help preserve endangered species. I want to see if MATLAB image processing and deep learning can be used to identify individual animal species that visit trail cameras. We are going to start with off-the-shelf functionality--nothing specialized for this particular task. My partners on this project are Heather Gorr and Jim Sanderson. Heather is a machine learning expert at MathWorks.