Hi Sebastine! Thanks for sharing this. What are you looking for from the WILDLABS community? (Collaborators, advice, networking, etc.) 

Would be interested to learn more! What data, software and tools are you using to build your models?

Thanks for sharing this Rosita! I've just sent you an email about coming on Variety Hour to talk about CatchCam :) 

Hi Hugo, it's great that you are thinking about adding metadata features to Animal Detect! I'll share what I think would be useful from my perspective, but I think there is a lot of variation in how folks handle their image organization. 

Time and date are probably the most important features. I rename my image files using the camtrapR package, which uses Exiftool to read file metadata and append date and time to the filename. I find this method to be very robust because of the ability to change datetimes if needed -- for example, if the camera was programmed incorrectly, you can apply a timeshift to ensure they are correct in the filenames. Are you considering adding Exif capability directly to Animal Detect? Otherwise, I think that having a tool to parse filenames would be very helpful, where users could specify which parts of the filename correspond to camera site, date, time, etc., so that this information is included in downstream processing tasks.

I have found it frustrating that information such as camera name and temperature are not included in file metadata by many camera manufacturers. I have used OCR to extract the information in these cases, but it requires a bit of manual review, and I wouldn't say this is a regular part of my workflow.

Camera brand and model can be useful for analysis, and image dimensions and burst sequence can be helpful for computer vision tasks. 

Hope this helps!

Cara

Hi Olivier! I'm Alex from the WILDLABS community team. Thank you for sharing EcoTeka! I made a page for it on The Inventory, our wiki-style database of conservation technology tools, R&D projects, and organizations. The Inventory is an essential resource for people in the community to learn about what tools are available for their work.

As an owner of Ecoteka, I encourage you to edit this page to make it as accurate as possible! You can also become a "key contact" for EcoTeka so the WILDLABS community knows who to contact with any questions! To learn more about how to edit a page and become a key contact, read our user guide here. Reach out to myself or @JakeBurton for any troubleshooting needs!

Hi Aleksey, thanks for sharing this! We'd love to see you add SwarmGuard to The Inventory, our wiki-style database of conservation tech products, R&D projects, and organizations.  To learn about how to add SwarmGuard to The Inventory, read the user guide my colleague @JakeBurton  created. Reach out to either one of us with questions!

Good morning Aleksey,

Your idea is very similar to an idea I had -- I guess we are experiencing some convergent evolution.   I'd be very interested in understanding your project more.   I'd be curious to know if you've done much testing with Lora and dense foliage.  I'm just curious to know if you've hit any real limitations.  Reading your description, it sounds like perhaps you are using some mesh networking.   Anyway -- it's nice to meet you and see we had similar ideas.

Chris

Thank you for bringing our attention to regenerative finance, Mr. Tumi. I appreciate it very much, and would like to learn more about this. Could you please refer to online sources describing that financial philosophy and the mini-grid systems?

Hi Yusuf! Thanks for sharing this. What are you looking for from the WILDLABS community? (Collaborators, advice, networking, etc.)