"Hero" images?

[Dan Morris]

WI users:

I'm one of the researchers at Google working on the Wildlife Insights AI model.  I'm considering a side project to train an AI model to identify "hero images" - i.e., subjectively good/interesting/fun/diverse images - in large collections of camera trap images.  I don't need a lot of data to get started, but it would be great to assemble a few hundred "user favorites" from diverse projects.    Not necessarily ecologically interesting, more the kind of images you might frame and put on your desk.

Some users use the "highlight" button in WI to indicate this kind of image, but everyone uses it differently, so it's not really a reliable indicator of images that look nice.  So, I'm pinging the community here.

If people have "favorite" camera trap images that you wouldn't mind sharing, please send them my way?  They don't have to come from Wildlife Insights, they just have to be camera trap images.  No images containing humans, please.

Sharing by email (or Google Drive, OneDrive, etc.) is probably easiest, but if you happen to have a whole WI project of favorites that you wouldn't mind sharing, the email address I use on WI is agent...@gmail.com .

I can't promise that anything will come of this, but hopefully, if it goes well, the community will get a new tool we can use to pull "interesting" images out before you even review your images, which might be helpful for project pages, grant reports, etc.

While I'm here, since we almost never email this list, the AI team at Google always welcomes your feedback about the AI model, and we are equally interested in amazing AI success stories and catastrophic AI failures.  So if you have questions or feedback about the WI AI model, feel free to ping us at camer...@google.com .

Thanks!

-Dan

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Dan Morris

songs...@google.com

Google AI for Nature

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[Roland Kays]

Love this idea!

awesome images coming your way

Roland