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Antarctic penguin colonies can be identified and tracked from tourists' photos, using a computer model to reconstruct the 3D scene

Antarctic penguin colonies can be identified and tracked from tourists' photos, using a computer model to reconstruct the 3D scene
2024-10-30
(Press-News.org) Antarctic penguin colonies can be identified and tracked from tourists' photos, using a computer model to reconstruct the 3D scene

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0311038

Article Title: Penguin colony georegistration using camera pose estimation and phototourism

Author Countries: U.S.A.

Funding: This work was supported in part by the NASA Biodiversity Program (Award 317 80NSSC21K1027), and NSF Grant IIS-2212046. The funders had no say in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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[Press-News.org] Antarctic penguin colonies can be identified and tracked from tourists' photos, using a computer model to reconstruct the 3D scene