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黄靖媗

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生态学家使用脸部辨识软体追踪灰熊

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梅兰尼．克拉珀姆花费至少3年的时间，使用设置在金属盒内、安全地绑在树枝上的小型相机陷阱，拍摄英属哥伦比亚海滩奈特湾灰熊的照片。

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在3年内拍摄数千张照片后，维多利亚大学这位行为生态学家与博士后研究生们，与2名硅谷软体开發者、一家阿拉斯加灰熊研究中心合作，發展应用于辨识熊隻的脸部辨识技术。

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克拉珀姆说，公开的Bear ID软体现在可以被任何人使用及修改，可能对于理解动物行为、缓解熊人相遇带来巨大影响。
 

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Ecologist uses facial recognition software to track grizzly bears

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Melanie Clapham has spent the last three years snapping images of grizzly bears at Knight Inlet, on the B.C. coast, using small camera traps housed in metal and strapped securely to the forest branches.

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Three years and thousands of images later, the behavioral ecologist and postdoctoral student at the University of Victoria has partnered with two software developers living in Silicon Valley and a grizzly research center in Alaska to develop facial recognition technology used to identify the bears.

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Now, Clapham says, the open-source Bear ID software can be used and adapted by anyone and could have huge implications for understanding the animals’ behavior and mitigating bear-human encounters.

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