DMP voor het camerAI project

Many people have become captivated by the question: "What lives in my
neighborhood?" through ObsIdentify and other successful citizen science projects. Thanks to the advent of AI, anyone can determine the name of an animal or plant with a single photo. ObsIdentify alone had over 1 million unique users in 2023. However, not all animals are equally easy to photograph with your smartphone. That's why more and more people are using automatic detectors like sound recorders or camera traps. They've become so mainstream that
camera traps can even be found at a reasonable price in supermarkets like Aldi and Lidl. But what about all those hours of footage, and which animals are in them? Citizens usually don't have access to the professional portals to process the data efficiently.
CamerAI wants to provide citizens with free camera traps to investigate what lives in their garden or the countryside around their neighborhood. We're building an intuitive, freely accessible input screen into which citizens can drag and drop a large amount of data. The AI ​​assistant automatically processes these observations into series and suggests species names based on existing
image recognition AI. Citizens can help by improving or confirming these suggestions. Afterwards, their own observations can be exported to a personal profile on Waarnemingen.be, where a personal report can also be found. This way, you'll find all the answers to the questions "what lives in my garden" and "what lives in my neighborhood" in one place. The observations contribute to scientific research on the distribution and trends of mammals, allowing citizens to actively contribute to nature conservation and biodiversity.