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iNaturalist opens up a wealth of nature data — and computer vision challenges

130 million observations. That's the biodiversity dataset nobody in AI is talking about.

Reporting by Amazon Science 1 min brief
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While everyone focuses on text and images, iNaturalist's massive nature dataset presents unique computer vision challenges that could unlock new AI applications in environmental monitoring and species identification.

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  1. Amazon Machine Learning Research Award recipient

  2. Combines human expertise with machine learning models

  3. Focus on biodiversity data and computer vision challenges

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Publisher excerpt: Amazon Machine Learning Research Award recipient utilizes a combination of people and machine learning models to illuminate the planet's incredible biodiversity.
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