Researchers Successfully Train Computers to Identify Animals in Photos
A computer model developed at the University of Wyoming by UW researchers and others has demonstrated remarkable accuracy and efficiency in identifying images of wild animals from camera-trap photographs in North America. The artificial-intelligence breakthrough, detailed in a paper published in the scientific journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution, is described as a significant advancement in…
Researchers use Artificial Intelligence to Identify, Count, Describe Wild Animals
A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reports how a cutting-edge artificial intelligence technique called deep learning can automatically identify, count and describe animals in their natural habitats. Photographs that are automatically collected by motion-sensor cameras can then be automatically described by deep neural networks. The result is a system that…
New Research Sheds Light on Prehistoric Human Migration in Europe
Two University of Wyoming researchers contributed to a new study in which DNA of ancient skeletal remains of people from southeastern Europe were used to determine migration patterns across Europe during prehistoric times. Ivor Jankovic, an associate adjunct professor, and Ivor Karavanic, an adjunct professor, both in UW’s Department of Anthropology, contributed to the new…
Most of Last 11,000 Years Cooler than Past Decade in North America, Europe
University of Wyoming researchers led a climate study that determined recent temperatures across Europe and North America appear to have few, if any, precedent in the past 11,000 years. The study revealed important natural fluctuations in climate have occurred over past millennia, which would have naturally led to climatic cooling today in the absence of…