[mijoharas]

In case anyone is watching, the live stream is over :( [0].

Twitter account is located here [1].

[0] https://wwf.fi/en/norppalive/

[1] https://twitter.com/NorppaVahti

[elnygren]

It was a good run while it lasted!

In case you guys have ideas for other similar ML/AI projects - we could take a look!

(shameless plug, I'm a partner at Emblica.fi)

[mijoharas]

Any idea where to find a database of birds? I've been kicking around with the idea of using transfer learning and then a database of bird images to fine tune a classifier to tell people what a bird they take a picture of is (EDIT, similar approach: [0]).

Would help with research. I know some people in finland that had participated in a crowdsourced census of birdlife in their area and thought it could be easier with an app that captures bird images and automatically classifies them (tells the user, I've often wondered what kind of bird something I've seen is) and provides the data to researchers.

I asked a friend of mine who works at a bird life charity if he knew of any data sets, but he didn't.

[0] https://jeffxtang.github.io/deep/learning,/tensorflow,/mobil...

[timbre]

The NABirds dataset: http://dl.allaboutbirds.org/nabirds.

But it's North American birds, not sure if you specifically want to cover birds that show up in Finland or if that was just your inspiration.

There are a couple apps that do what you're talking about, but they're both North American birds only as well.

http://www.birdsnap.com/ (I was involved in this one)

http://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

[winkle]

I was looking into this for identifying other animals. iNaturalist has a community that adds observations and identifies species. They have an API as well as a dataset for research https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/developers

[gbrown]

You could scrape something like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbird/

[ReverseCold]

Is this related to that xkcd where he calls that task virtually impossible?

[lijf]

https://xkcd.com/1425/