WILDLABS
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
The Marburg University in Germany is offering a PhD position to work with moths, camera light traps and citizen science. The position is offered for a period of 3 years. The starting date is 1st October 2025. The position is part-time (65 % of regular working hours) with salary and benefits commensurate with a public service position in the state Hesse, Germany (TV-H E 13, 65 %).
The goal of the BMFTR-funded project "BiodivKI-2: Monitoring Moth Biodiversity (Lepidoptera) Using Automated Camera Traps and Artificial Intelligence (LEPMON)" is to develop a powerful AI system that enables nationwide monitoring of nocturnal insects. To achieve this, we are developing camera-light traps (CLTs), an appropriate data management system, and are using artificial intelligence (AI) to enable large-scale species identification of moths and other insects. Since high-performance AI requires a large number of manually labeled training images, it can be beneficial to involve citizens in the collection and classification of images.
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