Professor Andrea Baden Helps Develop Facial-Recognition Program that Allows Researchers to Recognize Lemurs in the Wild
Dr. Andrea Baden, a Biological Anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology, recently teamed up with her colleagues Rachel Jacobs (George Washington University) and Stacey Tecot (The University of Arizona, Tuscon), along with a group of computer scientists, to design a facial recognition program for lemurs. According to an article in ResearchGatehttps://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/facial-recognition-for-lemurs-allows-researchers-to-track-them-less-invasively, Jacobs and Tecot had been frustrated that they hadn't been able to easily combine their data, having had to rely on photographs and their own memories to recognize lemurs in the wild. The face-recognition program, LemurFaceID, is described as not "just good for scientists; it also spares lemurs the stress of being captured and tagged."