Microsoft AI for Good Lab — Biodiversity research hub. Open-source AI models, edge devices, and tools for biodiversity monitoring and conservation. Your source for MegaDetector, SPARROW, PytorchWildlife, Bioacoustics, and more.

MegaDetector is an AI model that helps conservation folks spend less time doing boring things with camera trap images.

Simplify camera trap image analysis with AI species recognition models based around the MegaDetector model

Detect Animals, Humans and Vehicles in Camera Trap Imagery. Powered by MegaDetector v5.

A desktop application that makes using MegaDetector's model easier

SPARROW — Solar-Powered Acoustic and Remote Recording Observation Watch. An AI-enabled edge device for biodiversity monitoring with camera-trap imaging and bioacoustic recording. By Microsoft AI for Good Lab.

MegaDetector — Microsoft's open-source AI for camera-trap conservation. Detects animals in camera-trap imagery and filters out blank images, reducing manual review across large datasets.Maintained by Microsoft AI for Good Lab.

MegaDetector models served over FastAPI & visualized with Streamlit

The Image Level Label to Bounding Box (IL2BB) pipeline automates the generation of labeled bounding boxes by leveraging an organization’s previous labeling efforts.

TeraiNet is a species classification model focused on the Terai region in Nepal to support Bengal tiger conservation

Docker image for running the MegaDetector v4 camera-trap object detection model.

Open-source wildlife detection, segmentation & tracking in video.

Instructions to export megadetector v5 from PyTorch to ONNX and tools to use the exported model.

Classifier for vehicles cropped from camera trap images

Guidance for image-based identification of traded animals in highly occluded contexts.

Aplicación de estrategias de deep-learning para la detección de animales en imágenes de fototrampeo

Classifier for horses cropped from camera trap images

Megadetector-v5 for SLURM

Filter cameras traps images with megadetector on a cluster

MegaDetector-Classifier — Microsoft's open-source AI for camera-trap species classification. Fine-tuning and inference for wildlife identification, running downstream of MegaDetector animal detection. Maintained by Microsoft AI for Good Lab. Part of the Pytorch-Wildlife ecosystem.