ISD Seminar - Artificial Intelligence for Wildlife Conservation

Wildlife monitoring provides valuable information for conservation, research and disease management, but most wildlife monitoring methods are expensive and labour intensive. This presentation will cover our research on applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to monitor wildlife in new and more effective ways, overcoming the limitations of current monitoring methods. We present our integrated framework for data collection and annotation, AI method development and validation, to improve feedback loops between AI and ecological data. We also present our wildlife data annotation tool and method for wildlife data synthesis.

Speaker’s biography:

Duc Thanh Nguyen is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Lead of Machine Intelligence Lab, within the School of Information Technology, Deakin University. Dr Nguyen is a Grant Assessor for the Australian Research Council (ARC). Dr Nguyen's interests include Computer Vision and Machine Learning. His research has been published in highly ranked venues in the field of AI and Computer Vision such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, WACV, AAAI. Dr Nguyen has attracted and managed competitive national/international research funding with a total income over $2.5 mil AUD.