{"id":221547,"date":"2026-05-28T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/most-wildlife-ai-focuses-on-the-ground-this-model-looks-up-in-the-trees\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T04:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:30:20","slug":"most-wildlife-ai-focuses-on-the-ground-this-model-looks-up-in-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/most-wildlife-ai-focuses-on-the-ground-this-model-looks-up-in-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Most wildlife AI focuses on the ground. This model looks up in the trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2026\/05\/most-wildlife-ai-focuses-on-the-ground-this-model-looks-up-in-the-trees\/\">Most wildlife AI focuses on the ground. This model looks up in the trees<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2026\/05\/most-wildlife-ai-focuses-on-the-ground-this-model-looks-up-in-the-trees\/\">https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2026\/05\/most-wildlife-ai-focuses-on-the-ground-this-model-looks-up-in-the-trees\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 02:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.mongabay.com\">news.mongabay.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New AI Model for Arboreal Species Detection<\/strong>: Scientists have developed TropiCam-AI, an artificial intelligence model specifically designed to detect and identify tree-dwelling species in tropical forests of the Americas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus on Arboreal Species<\/strong>: Unlike other AI models that concentrate on ground-dwelling animals, TropiCam-AI aims to fill the gap in the detection of arboreal species, which are crucial for ecosystem functions as seed dispersers and yet often overlooked.<\/li>\n<li><strong>High Detection Accuracy<\/strong>: The TropiCam-AI can recognize 84 taxa, including 63 different species, with an accuracy rate of 95%. Most taxa achieve over 90% precision and recall, demonstrating the model&#8217;s effectiveness.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Application in Camera-Trap Data Analysis<\/strong>: The model can analyze camera-trap data, helping ecologists and researchers expedite the processing of millions of images and videos, aiding in conservation efforts for tree-dwelling species threatened by deforestation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Data Collection and Training<\/strong>: The bulk of data for training the model was gathered by collecting camera-trap images from expeditions in Brazil and supplementing with data from other locations and citizen scientist platforms like iNaturalist.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Collaborative Development<\/strong>: The project involves collaborative efforts between researchers, local communities, NGOs, and multiple international sites to enhance the model&#8217;s training data and expand its capabilities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Future Prospects<\/strong>: The development team plans to refine the AI model further by adding more training data and working with additional collaborators to enhance its precision and applicability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most wildlife AI focuses on the ground. This model looks up in the trees https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2026\/05\/most-wildlife-ai-focuses-on-the-ground-this-model-looks-up-in-the-trees\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/05\/28053452\/Saimiri_sciureus-1_Luc_Viatour.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-221547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221550,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221547\/revisions\/221550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}