Pietro Perona and Suzanne Stathatos, two AI researchers, discussed the potential of AI as a powerful tool for wildlife conservation and biodiversity research in a webinar series hosted by the Caltech Science Exchange. They discussed the use of computer vision to identify and track wildlife, which can provide fresh insights to biologists and other individuals interested in the environment. Computer vision is the ability to give machines the same ability as humans to understand the world just by looking. It is difficult for computers to identify an object just by looking at it because the image generated by the eyes is a representation of the object that may be very different from what is actually there.
