Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects

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Autonomous camera traps for insects provide a tool for long-term remote monitoring of insects. These systems bring together cameras, computer vision, and autonomous infrastructure such as solar panels, mini computers, and data telemetry to collect images of insects.

With increasing recognition of the importance of insects as the dominant component of almost all ecosystems, there are growing concerns that insect biodiversity has declined globally, with serious consequences for the ecosystem services on which we all depend.

Automated camera traps for insects offer one of the best practical and cost-effective solutions for more standardised monitoring of insects across the globe. However, to realise this we need interdisciplinary teams who can work together to develop the hardware systems, AI components, metadata standards, data analysis, and much more.

This WILDLABS group has been set up by people from around the world who have individually been tackling parts of this challenge and who believe we can do more by working together.

We hope you will become part of this group where we share our knowledge and expertise to advance this technology.

Check out Tom's Variety Hour talk for an introduction to this group.

Learn about Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects by checking out recordings of our webinar series:

Meet the rest of the group and introduce yourself on our welcome thread - https://www.wildlabs.net/discussion/welcome-autonomous-camera-traps-insects-group

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Description	Activity	Replies	Groups	Updated
AMI-trap unboxing - Automated moth monitoring system	This video is so great - I don't know what I was imagining that you were building, but this is so much bigger and more involved than whatever I was vaguely thinking. Really cool...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects	2 years 5 months ago
Solar panels in the tropics	Hey Tom,Since the output is dependent on a couple of factors such as the solar irradiance of the place, shading from the canopy, the type of solar panels (mono, poly or amorphous...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Camera Traps, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Sensors	2 years 6 months ago
Cameras - pros and cons	Awesome! it would be great to hear how you get on, maybe you can share your results here when you have them. Is the camera only for the Pi? That could be a problem for scaling as...	+7	Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Sensors	2 years 8 months ago
Implementation of video surveillance to quantify the predation rate	Hi Julien, we are working with the Luxonis OAK-1 which can run lightweight detection models (e.g. YOLOv5n/s) directly on-device. However you will still need a host, for...		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects	2 years 9 months ago
Most interesting images / sightings 'caught on camera'	My most prized camera trap image - a hummingbird caught on camera!		Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Camera Traps	2 years 10 months ago
Counting insect density automatically with Intel RealSense D455?	Might be good to add this to the 'Automated Camera Traps for Insects' group		Camera Traps, Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects	2 years 10 months ago
Identify animal from Image	Have you considered creating a Kaggle competition? If you already have lots of images, and some that have been labelled, then this could be a good way to get people working on a...		AI for Conservation, Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Camera Traps	3 years ago

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