John,
I am not sure that the University of Wisconsin is quite up to that. A big job.
They may be happy to lease the algorithms though. They are a pretty public
spirited lot, having given the world the technology of using UV light to
produce vitamin D and also the anticoagulant Warfarin.
Perhaps some entrepreneurial type in Australia might wish to take up the torch
for an Australian version.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 15/11/2012, at 19:36, John Wright <> wrote:
> Looks interesting - I hope they expand it to be worldwide coverage!
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Carl Clifford <>
> wrote:
>> Chris,
>>
>> There is an app for North American species (WeBIRD) being launched next
>> year. See http://www.news.wisc.edu/19882
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Carl Clifford
>>
>> On 15/11/2012, at 10:54, Chris Sanderson <> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dave,
>>>
>>> A program that identifies bird calls has already been developed in the US,
>>> but only for research as yet. I last heard about it at the Australasian
>>> Ornithological Conference in 2011, but they were up to about 90% accuracy
>>> on ID from memory.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Dave Torr <> wrote:
>>> Interesting - the very first birding database I used was called Merlin. I
>>> used it for a couple of years then the guy who developed it told his users
>>> he was going off to be a Buddhist monk and would no longer support the
>>> product so I moved on....
>>>
>>> And then of course we need one that identifies calls - there are services
>>> that will identify music I know (you play a sample you heard on the radio
>>> and it tells you what the music was) but this would be a bit harder I
>>> suppose - or maybe it already exists?????
>>>
>>> On 15 November 2012 10:34, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear B-A,
>>>>
>>>> Cornell Lab of Ornithology is developing a project called Merlin. This aim
>>>> of this project is to develop software that enables computers to identify
>>>> birds from images. See
>>>> http://dev.nabirds.org/Web/Tools/ImageUpload/pages/about.php
>>>>
>>>> Given the advances in human biometrics, I imagine that computer ID of
>>>> birds is quite doable. Wonder how long it will take for the technology to
>>>> appear in handheld devices? After all, how many of us say, 10-15 years ago,
>>>> would have thought that an all singing, all dancing field guide in a
>>>> smartphone type device would be possible?
>>>>
>>>> An interesting space to watch.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Carl Clifford
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