Washington Post: This New Program Identifies Birds With Just a Photo

A new website developed by researchers from Cornell Tech, including Professor Serge Belongie, and the California Institute of Technology with help from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology was featured in The Washington Post for its ability to identify bird species from a photo.

There’s a big world out there and it’s full of birds. But figuring out the names of those birds can be intimidating and difficult work for the novice among us.

Enter Merlin Bird ID, a program that lets you upload your bird pictures and then uses computer-vision technology to present possible species. It’s sort of like Shazam, but for birds. The mobile app asks the user questions about the bird to generate a list of possible species, even accompanied by bird calls.

Read the full article from The Washington Post.