MegaDetector
AI model that finds animals, people, and vehicles in camera trap images
Free
Computer Vision
It runs on large folders of photos and outputs boxes and confidence scores. Researchers then sort detections or pass them to species classifiers. Microsoft AI for Good started the project.
Accuracy varies with camera setup, and some manual review is still expected.
Wildlife Insights offers a web service. MegaDetector suits zoologists and wildlife biologists with large image sets.