You can stop watching blank videos

If you've looked at videos collected from trail cameras, you might have found that a large fraction of them contain no visible animals. And if you've spent much time looking at blank videos, you might wish there was a better way! Using automatic classification from Zamba, an AI tool for wildlife research and conservation, you can eliminate a substantial fraction of blank videos, sight unseen, while losing only a small fraction of videos that actually contain animals. The goal of this article is to quantify that claim. Here's how we'll do it: To train Zamba's classification model, we collected more than 280,000 videos from researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology working in West, Central, and East Africa.