Saving Endangered Species: New AI Method Counts Manatee Clusters in Real Time
Florida Atlantic UniversityAccurately counting manatee aggregations within a region is crucial yet challenging. Harnessing the power of AI, researchers are among the first to use a deep learning-based crowd counting approach to automatically count the number of manatees in a designated region, using images captured from CCTV cameras, which are readily available, as input.