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Camera Traps (or Wild Cams) enable the automatic collection of large quantities of image data.
- Biologists all over the world use camera traps to monitor biodiversity and population density of animal species.
- The computer vision community has been making strides towards automating the species classification challenge in camera traps, but as we try to expand the scope of these models from specific regions where we have collected training data to different areas we are faced with an interesting problem: how do you classify a species in a new region that you may not have seen in previous training data? In order to tackle this problem, we have prepared a dataset and challenge where the training data and test data are from different regions, namely The American Southwest and the American Northwest.
- We use the Caltech Camera Traps dataset, collected from the American Southwest, as training data.
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